The Balanga Complex

About the Book

Fiction it has been suggested is stranger than history, but the reality is fiction is history. It is either a record of an author’s stimulated imagination, or real events of historical merit with venues, names and dates skewed to protect the innocent. The former being the case for The Balanga Complex A Pilgrim’s Holiday. That is, mostly the case for life experiences can never be totally eliminated from a fictional story. To live is to have a story whether rooted in imagination or accrued from actual happenings. Both being the case for the author of this holiday story and that makes for a more familiar, if not a truer fictional tale.

About the Author

The author lived amongst the peoples of every venue mention in the story from Whistlestop, Alabama to Limay, Bataan. He was infected with the Asian mystique for daily life of a happy peoples from the southern cities of Lucena and Pagbilao, to Balanga, the capital city of Bataan situated on Maynila Bay’s western shore. What better places could a pilgrim on holiday land? The author knows not.