A memoir by WL "Lee" Noble

Blood, sweat, and tears. Among all of it, courage.

The Call of the Wild Child is the true story of a boy who was never meant to make it. Raised by a sixteen-year-old mother, raising four siblings by the age of eight, and choosing to be his own hero.

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Memoir · Hardcover · Paperback · eBook · Published December 2023

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About the author

The wild child that survived.


Born in 1965 in a small Texas town, the eldest of five children raised by a sixteen-year-old mother who had no one to raise her. His father was gone before Lee turned four. His grandmother was murdered. What was left was a childhood spent raising himself, and everyone younger than him.

That decision took him out of the house and into the United States Air Force, then into a career in law enforcement from which he retired as a Captain over a Criminal Investigations Division. This is his first book.

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Captain Lee Noble, Retired

In his words

W. Lee Noble

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"There are moments in this book that appeared so vividly in my mind, moments that still haunt me. Read it all in one sitting because I couldn't put it down."

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"A tough look at what goes on behind closed doors, and his riveting story about survival and overcoming."

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"So many hidden gems. Resiliency, strength, forgiveness. There's a lesson for us all."

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