Hey, You

About the Book

Gordon Miller is checking over the scores of the baseball games played the night before while reading his newspaper. He is on the bus heading to where he will be getting his colonoscopy, Gordon is a semi-retired sportswriter, divorced with two grown up children. He lives in a middle-class home with his beloved dog Costello. His life basically existing of an occasional ball game and attempting of an occasional ballgame and attempting to write a novel. His life is otherwise somewhat boring. Except for Friday evenings when he gets together with his friends and bowls. A sport which Gordon loves and is very good at. Although relatively happy with his life Gordon is searching. Julie Ryan is running down the sidewalk flagging down the bus #44 as it makes it way to clinic. Julie is 25 years old; she coaches the local college girls’ soccer team at St. John’s in Cleveland. She played for St. John’s for four years. She was a standout athlete at the school not in soccer but track and basketball as well. She lives in a dormitory, a place she knows at home since she was orphaned as a young girl. Her father was killed in a freak accident when Julie was very young something Julie has never accepted. Julie is going to the clinic for a routine mastectomy. Julie gets on the bus and sits down next to Gordon. And by chance a friendship and love affair would begin. The two would embark on an adventure together that will lead to an exciting, funny and loving story that will tug at your heart strings. Two people, one old, one young both searching for the same thing.

About the Author

Gordon Leech is a seventy-one-year-old retiree who migrated to Arizona from Cleveland, Ohio in 2014. He is a Vietnam Veteran who loves sports, reading and regularly participates in his favorite sport-Bowling. In 1973, his mother was stricken with breast cancer and despite a long battle succumbed to the disease. At age fifty-one. His older sister suffered the same fate nineteen years later at the tender age of forty-two. After being invited to his niece’s soccer games, he came away with the realization that women’s sports, although maybe not as rough and tough as men’s sports, are still competitive, interesting and exciting. These events plus his religious beliefs planted the seed to write this novel. He has published another book “Yesterdays Hippies, Todays Yuppies,” in 2012.