Ping Howard Duck and conspiracy nuts

Howard, et al recreational conspiracy theorists,

I will bet that you will love the third installment of my Nick Schaevers mysteries, whatich I am beginning to now write. I have finished the plotting, and have almost finished the outline. After that, it is tap the keg, and tap the muse, and let the libation fueled writing flow!

You will have to hang on for a while, since the first Nick Schaevers novel is just coming out this year.

You Can't Go Home opens with a man crossing a street in Alexandria Virginnia. He is killed hit-and-run. His (high school sweetheart) wife takes him home to St. Louis, where he will be buried in the family plot. When she sets out to return to Alexandria -- to figure out the how she will proceed with her life -- she is shocked to discover her airline ticket is void, the seat assigned to another person. The credit cards and drivers license in her hands do not exist. She has been "erased."

Nick Schaevers, PI and his lawyer friend get the banks and DMV to reinstate her accounts from back-up archives, and her life is in order, but Nick can't let it go. He has to get to the bottom of it (reasons revealed in the book).

Nick goes to Alexandria, VA to solve the murder, and gets involved in an international blood feud between hundreds competing organizations -- countries, companies, organizations, and religions -- running INTEL Ops on each other. The conspiracy theory plot is raised to the 25th power, and Brownian Motion and Chaos Theory provide the forcing functions for the plot movements.

At one point, where Nick is told that someone works "in security," Nick asks "Is that one word, or two?" You Can't Go Home is a barely sane romp of a mystery novel. I am having the best time writing it!

I hope that you become a fan. Most people won;t get all the jokes I am making at the conspiracy theorist's expense. I only hope that they survive the editor;s red pen.

Blessings on your path,
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