Sturgis Sturdevant is a professional troll. He works for a fake news website, he can’t seem to find a decent therapist or meet a nice girl, and it looks like he’s inadvertently joined a cult. If that wasn’t bad enough, Stu might also be a hypnotically programmed assassin. or, The Hallucinatory Vanguard is two-parts neo-noir and one-part satire. The reader will encounter media startup yuppies, conspiracy theorists, ravers, and political extremists of all types in a book that doesn’t comment on conspiracy culture as much as wallow in it.
I picked up this book after I heard a post-Tree of Life [Pittsburgh] massacre interview with the author. If you observe and track conspiracy culture from the “researchers” corner, you’ll probably get into this Millennial patsy’s tale. It’s clever and deftly told.
Good self-published books are few and far between, and this is one of them. It gets that full fifth star from me for being edited and formatted well.