Everyone dreams of being a hero but very few actually do anything about it. Enter Nathaniel Hawkins, a university janitor who plays a few too many video games, drinks a little too much beer, and desperately needs to get his life in order. That is, until he discovers how to travel in time and be a hero to those in the past. His adventures will pit him against a flesh-hungry robot monster, intergalactic space lords vying for power, and an evil emperor bent on destroying the planet Earth. This is the campy tongue-in-cheek tale of how a super-hero is born, the mistakes he makes along the way and...

"The Cross at Pig Hill is a novel of political violence and hopelessness, repressed lust, despair out of the abandoned west of Ireland. Walsh's voice is funny, sly, and self-mocking. His lines of burnished brass ring musical; and his tale of innocence gone wacky remind one of Celine's laughs and tears." -- Mark Jay Mirsky, Editor Fiction

"Definitely a fine talent...dialogue excellent...great sense of place." -- Pat McCabe, author The Butcher Boy.,

The dialogue fairly well gallops along - it happens to be simultaneously funny, poignant, madcap and bitter. It's...