New book coming

Long fascinated by the obscure story, Rico has decided to restart his book on Haj Ali (known, of course, as Hi Jolly to his ignorant American contemporaries), who came from Turkey in 1856 to help run a camel train from Texas to California. While there are some bad books out about him (Hi Jolly by Jim Kjelgaard being one of them; written as a 'juvenile', it's got some really bad history in it, along with the typical florid prose), Rico is hoping his turns out to be a good one.