Blasphemies in the Wasteland

by David S. Wellhauser

Hell has fallen. Chaos reigns. Cue refugees.

Disgraced former journalist, Paul Marat, is called in to investigate a suspicious murder/suicide when the city closes the case. With career and personal life circling the drain, he accepts the offer. What begins as a domestic dispute rapidly descends into a nightmare of political intrigue, secret societies, and conspiracies fronting an apocalyptic plan. Time is running out as Paul must decide whether humanity is worth saving. Woven into the tragedy is an old love with connections to a mysterious organization.

Behind all of this is the mysterious Doctor Mirabilis and the Underworld’s lost lock-box: Kenós.

Part neo-noir, supernatural mystery, and romance this urban fantasy twists down one dark, action-packed path after another as Paul Marat struggles with love and betrayal while a slurry of ancient blasphemies overrun the city.

Will Paul make the right choice?

Hit that buy button and find out in the exciting second installment of the Dis series.

Kindle Edition

Published June 9, 2018

About the author

David S. Wellhauser was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Mr. Wellhauser acquired both a Bachelor's and a Master's from the University of Guelph (English Literature). Over the years the author has lived and worked in many countries and travelled in many others. Presently he is an Assistant Professor, in the Department of Liberal Education, at Keimyung University, Daegu, The Republic of Korea. Mr. Wellhauser has lived in East Asia for many years.

Drawing on a number of genres the author's work wanders from literary thriller to psychological suspense, slipstream, and literary mash-ups. Much of their writing has been influenced by Magical Realism, Contemporary/Urban Fantasy, and many others as well.

The author has been influenced by a broad swathe of novelists, playwrights, and poets. Those such as Shakespeare, Donne, Dostoyevsky, Sterne, Rabelais, Virgil, Homer, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Russell Hoban, and many others spring immediately to mind.

But they have also been influenced by geopolitics, realpolitik, history, economics, business, the social sciences, science, fringe science, travel, and conversations and arguments with many interesting and crazy people over the years.

Traditions which make their way into this writer's work are: Fantasy, Science Fiction, World Literature, Gritty or Hard-boiled Crime Fiction, Philosophy, Gnostic Dementia, Nihilism, Genre Re-inscription, and Realpolitik.

The author's intention is to reveal character at the frontier of experience and humanity. From this oxygen deprived environment, identity and action buckle psychological topographies, revealing a new and disturbing landscape bounded by a razor wire narrative and laced with amorality.

Reviews

[Mark Brady · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not worth reading

Bad. Worst rambling,maudlin, disconnected, hoop of badly mixed mythos I have read. It is like a drunk ramble. I kept trying to read, but after 2 years, deleted at 60%.