'Wounded, ' the second novel in The Long War Series, finds Richard Belisle leaving his home town to prove his worth before his friend, Marie-Jeanne Charbonneau, his family, his village, his people. Richard's forebears--father, grandfathers, great-grandfathers into the mists of time--had been warriors. It is the onset of the 1960s. The nuclear age no longer needs soldiers. He seeks his worth within the confines of the baseball stadium. Baseball rules, if not just, are firm. He encounters temptation, corruption and injustice, explosive rage and hypocrisy. Injury and death lurking behind a friendly grin. He suffers a concussion. Marie-Jeanne finds him on a Colorado mountain, where Indifferent nature tests them, their worth, their love.