Easy Come Easy Go

The Book of Tolan #2

by T.I. Wade

Following the exploits of the Tolan family in Banking, Beer & Robert The Bruce, Volume II picks up the pace with motorcycle-racing, The 'Battle of Britain', flying by-the-seat-of-your-pants, and then the thrill of discovering the opposite sex in the free-wheelin' "flower-power" era.

Beginning in the 1930's in England, the story follows the exploits of Colonel William Tate through the Second World War in India and then on to Africa. The wily Colonel not only survives abandonment in the jungles by his employer, but thrives and plays a major part in the Allied victory.

The adventure then picks up the story of a small English boy on the dangerous continent of Africa, growing up in the sixties and seventies when the civilized World was defining ‘civilized’! This unorthodox life makes for some amazing and seemingly wild happenings.

Volume II of The Book of Tolan advances the tales of the Tolan family through to Y2K, 1999.

Genres: Historical Fiction

711 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2007

About the author

T I Wade was born in Bromley, Kent, England in 1954. His father, a banker was promoted with his International Bank to Africa and the young family moved to Africa in 1956. The author grew up in Southern Rhodesia.
Once he had completed his mandatory military commitments, at 21 he left Africa to mature in Europe. He enjoyed Europe and lived in three countries; England, Germany and Portugal for 15 years before returning to Africa; Cape Town in 1989. Here the author owned and ran a restaurant, a coffee manufacturing and retail business, flew a Cessna 210 around desolate southern Africa and finally got married in 1992. Due to the upheavals of the political turmoil in South Africa, the Wade family of three moved to the United States in 1996. Park City, Utah was where his writing career began.
To date T I Wade has written sixteen novels.

Reviews

[Brad Theado · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really don't know how to describe this book effectively. It starts out as a family history and ends as a story that reads like an autobiography. The stories are funny and interesting enough to draw you into the main character's adventurous life. At time lusty, at times sad, I liked Ian from the beginning and had fun reading about his loose life style and misadventures. Like the title reads, his fortunes come easily and disappear just as easily.

A fun read.

[Jesse Kimmel-Freeman · Rating 5 out of 5]

i loved it. all i can say is elephant dung! lol. once you have read it you will understand! very well written and lovingly received!

[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

To start off with my apologies for the late review. A first grandchild has consumed almost all my time. That being said this book is the continuation of the first Book of Tolan which I absolutely loved. The book begins in the 1930's and takes us through the war, Africa, flower power era and to Y2K. Like the first book you will laugh out loud at the characters and the situations they find themselves in. The description of the beating that a young T.Ian got first from the bully and next from the teacher was hard to read, and then finding out that he was sent away because his parents were getting divorce was so sad. The writing is so rich in detail that I feel as if I know them like my own family. This is a must read. I won this from Goodreads.

[Drew Becker]

This is a continuation of Wade's previous book.