BRING ME THE BRAIN OF NIKOLA TESLA

by Sal Restivo

When Tony Conti's former lover, Mary Lynn Kagan, comes back into his lifeafter a long absence, he is soon immersed in the hunt for her husband'skillers. Tony's friends, Roscoe and Linda, join Tony and Mary Lynn in theirquest as they also search for their holy grail-the missing papers of NikolaTesla, the world-renowned inventor, physicist, and engineer.The trail of the killers and the missing papers takes the friends from theUnited States to Europe, where they encounter a nationalist groupidentified only by the initials SCNF. The group kidnaps Roscoe anddemands the Tesla papers as a ransom. There is a hidden feature of thepapers unknown to Tony that could put a powerful new weapon into thehands of the SCNF.Also included is a lengthy excerpt from Tony's diaries, which fleshes out theportrait of this talented intellectual coming of age in the 1960s. Watch Tonydevelop strategies for sexual survival as he blossoms into the scholar whowill eventually write The Thug Theory of History.Bring Me the Brain of Nikola Tesla explores the boundaries of sex, self, andconsciousness as author Sal Restivo interweaves linear narrative withdreams, memories, and diary entries from different time periods to createa mesmerizing tale.

206 pages, Paperback

First published June 12, 2007