It is 1860 and revolution is erupting throughout the world over universal emancipation.
He works out of his Pacific Northwest writing studio in Seattle, Washington..
He also teaches the business of medicine to physicians and faculty at the University of Washington and as an adjunct clinical assistant professor at the Cornell - New York Hospital / Columbia - New York Presbyterian emergency medicine post-graduate program.
Gar is co-founder of TeamHealth, the nation\'s largest physician staffing company.
Widow Walk also garnered the Eric Hoffer Award for Literature, the eLit Silver Medal, the IndieReaders Award for Best Novel, and Isthmus become a finalist for the PNWWA Nancy Pearl award for literature.
Widow Walk, Book I of the saga, was recently optioned for the screen by Seattle\'s Heyou Media.
The Widow Walk Saga novels reflect his love of history and the Pacific Northwest and have been widely recognized.
About the Author: Gar Lasalle is an award-winning author and filmmaker, a physician, a sculptor, and a creator who has been honored widely in the fine arts and medical communities for his leadership and creativity.
A run for their lives.
An inconvenient assault.
A convenient ride through the jungle. predators and victims, desperadoes and hangmen, widows and widow makers. . . each with hidden hopes and dreams . . .
Looking down the aisle they see an uncomfortable array of fellow travelers, an international mix of characters with whom they will get to know all too well .
From inside their coach they watch the humid forest, a different type of green from what they knew up north, slipping fast past, a warm verdant blur.
They traverse a hostile terrain on the new Panama Isthmus railroad, the most modern transportation in the world.
In the midst of it all, a young woman is moving back to Boston with what is left of her family, devastated and bankrupted by savage, tragic events that occurred less than a year ago in the Pacific Northwest.
Civil war looms in the Unites States.
It is 1860 and revolution is erupting throughout the world over universal emancipation