…IT TOLLS FOR THEE
What Hemingway began, John Donne completed, for, the bell tolls for each of us when our time comes. And while it may toll, I think only the elderly (and by Hemingway’s reckoning, the cowards — by my reckoning, those who’ve looked death in the face at one time or another in their lifetime) hear it. Youth seems tone deaf, being totally absorbed in finding a mate, in most instances, propagating the species. In THE EDGE OF MADNESS, taking up where TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese left off, NewAmerica, a shadow of its former United States of America, provides a challenging and dangerous future place for three young firebrands to live, all three of whom are deaf to death’s bell as they search for their “right” relationship in an complex world.
And search and choose they do, as all youth must, and then watch as their fates slowly unfold based on the consequences of those choices. With each choice their range of choices narrows and their personal death bell slowly materializes…except that one of the three possesses two unique “gifts:” a sensory savant’s sense of smell that can provide a glimpse into the thoughts, emotions and desires of those about him, and a growing uber-consciousness that began in utero and promises to afford an entirely new lens through which to view the world. Can such an individual pre-know his “time” and skirt his fate and those dear to him? The answer awaits at THE EDGE OF MADNESS.
Raymond Gaynor is the pen-name of the multi-award-winning, reclusive writer-artist-photographer-videographer, who, in his own words, “lives and breathes San Francisco.” He co-authored with William Maltese on the Tripler and Clarke gay political thriller, TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) and with A. G. Hayes on the fifth Koski & Falk adventure, QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016). He is the author of numerous fiction and non-fiction works published under a variety of pseudonyms.
And search and choose they do, as all youth must, and then watch as their fates slowly unfold based on the consequences of those choices. With each choice their range of choices narrows and their personal death bell slowly materializes…except that one of the three possesses two unique “gifts:” a sensory savant’s sense of smell that can provide a glimpse into the thoughts, emotions and desires of those about him, and a growing uber-consciousness that began in utero and promises to afford an entirely new lens through which to view the world. Can such an individual pre-know his “time” and skirt his fate and those dear to him? The answer awaits at THE EDGE OF MADNESS.
Raymond Gaynor is the pen-name of the multi-award-winning, reclusive writer-artist-photographer-videographer, who, in his own words, “lives and breathes San Francisco.” He co-authored with William Maltese on the Tripler and Clarke gay political thriller, TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) and with A. G. Hayes on the fifth Koski & Falk adventure, QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016). He is the author of numerous fiction and non-fiction works published under a variety of pseudonyms.
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