Blissmachine

by Mike Bull

Who is the mysterious Henry Hayes and why has he appeared suddenly one day in the life of the narrator, an ordinary office worker, a lonely guy whose life is stuck in limbo? And how does Henry know so many intimate details about him? And why does Henry want him to kill one of his work colleagues, a woman called Odette whom he admires from afar? These are astonishing and disturbing questions to confront on an otherwise normal Monday morning…Fearing that he’s losing his grip on reality, and in an attempt to understand just what the hell is going on, the narrator embarks on an increasingly surreal and paradigm-shifting adventure with Henry, one in which he’s pursued by strange and sinister people who will do anything to stop him, and one in the course of which he learns how to snowboard in the French Alps, fights in an ancient Roman battle against the Goths, encounters an eighteenth century Spanish fortune-teller who teaches him how to achieve enlightenment, and discovers that in previous lives he was a Stone Age hunter-gatherer fleeing from a pack of ravenous wolves, and a British army captain in the First World War on a secret mission to prevent the Germans from developing a deadly new weapon, and in the future will help save the planet Mars from invasion. And during these weird and amazing experiences that shatter all his preconceptions and beliefs, he meets and falls in love with Kim, a woman who turns out to be his soulmate…PLEASE this novel contains strong language and explicit scenes of sex, bloody violence and drug taking, and is for adults only.

304 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 20, 2012