Call Down the Hawk - War Cry

About the Book

In 1913 Oklahoma lawyer Seth Cane, now a special assistant to Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, travels to the Arizona border to report back on yet another Mexican revolutionary army, this one headed by Carranza which, like Villa's and Zapata's forces, is also trying to overthrow Mexican President Huerta. Back in Washington, he works on Bryan's effort to obtain arbitration treaties among nations to avoid war. Japan, incensed at the passage of California's Alien Land Law, is threatening action in the Philippines. U.S. Naval action is threatened against the port of Vera Cruz.

Annaliese Faver, Washington editor of the German language Brooklyn paper, has hired Seth's family friend Molly Langdon, daughter of a Texas Congressman. Both zealously promote woman suffrage. One is dating a German Embassy attaché, the other a British Embassy attaché.

War breaks out in Europe. Bryan sends Seth to the border where Seth's brother, Texas rancher Zack Kane, is held hostage by Pancho Villa's army.

The Lusitania sails for Europe with Seth's friends aboard.

(A sequel to Call Down the Hawk - The Bryan Factor, and The Special AgentsTrafford Publishing, 2004)

About the Author

Just after completing War Cry, his third and final novel, Richard Folmar died at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A World War II POW and an artillery captain in post war Korea, he was a writer for most of his life, beginning as a cub reporter for the Oklahoma City Times while earning his M.A. in Political Science from the University of Oklahoma. He was Assistant Director of the New Mexico Legislative Council Service from 1959-1985. His publications including Piecemeal Amendment of the Constitution of New Mexico 1911-1996; Legislative Apportionment in New Mexico, 1844-1966; and other articles on New Mexico government in standard texts. He also wrote freelance articles in the former Empire Magazine of the Denver Post.