Duke's Great Escape is the first book in the series The Adventures of Duke. All of the stories in the series are based on true events.

As a young boy, Duke and I grew up in the small coal mining town of Crumpler, West Virginia. We lived in the beautiful mountains of southern West Virginia with open country allowing us to do a lot of exploring together. Our exploring expeditions would be spent walking through the woods in the mountains enjoying all that nature had to offer. We would see different kinds of trees and plants such as maple trees, oak trees, black walnut...