Under the rot of tyranny, we are all faced with uncomfortable truths as political institutions crumble that once stood firm. Under this detritus, two disparate lives navigate a fateful evening that will test their political will and affections. Gary, a downtrodden adjunct history professor, wanted to grade papers when Alise, an idealistic student of his, throws them both into a moral quandary that threatens to establish society on a set of new terrifying organizing principles.
Dick Butterknife returns with another hard-boiled adventure in the grimy, corrupt city of Restrock. The trilby-wearing detective is on the hunt for a serial killer who stages their victims as mutilated crows. Butterknife must also protect the key witness to the latest murder, a young woman and heiress to one of Restrock’s monied banking families. Will Butterknife manage to escape the traps laid by the killer? Will he keep the prime witness from meeting an untimely end? Read on as Butterknife fights a new deadly foe that threatens his very sanity and leads him down the darkest corridors of humanity.
When a CEO falls 100 stories to his death, Dick Butterknife is called in to investigate the grisly homicide. What begins as a murder ends in a deadly race against time as Butterknife must uncover the conspiracy that threatens his own life by a new foe. The mysterious Ms. Veronica Hunter offers to help solve the case, but can she be trusted?
Chew on the story and gulp it down. This is the second adventure in The Dick Butterknife Chronicles and a follow-up to Dick Butterknife and the Golden Monkey.
In an amoral city, Dick Butterknife rights the wrongs of a corrupt society. In this scintillating adventure, Butterknife tracks down a crime syndicate planning on stealing the Golden Monkey, an idol that brings good luck to those who possess it. If he doesn’t? He’ll be framed and on the lam. To make matters worse, he’s on the outs with the police department, behind on his rent, and has no allies except for his old partner, Jimmy Connor.
What would happen to a planet’s colonists if they had to ferment their food to survive? How would society evolve over a millennium when humanity’s survival relied on one bacterium? Read on as Praise Be Lactobacillus explores these questions on the deadly planet of Deslon 9. Will it become a utopia or something else entirely…