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Kozmos & Khaos #3
The Bureau of Unexplained Deaths
A former Detroit detective. A chance for revenge. A world on the edge.
Espionage; murder; secret societies; terrorism; an ancient conspiracy, and breakneck action chase one another from Detroit to London, to Paris, and beyond.
One-time Detroit police detective, Theo Conn, hanging on to life by a thread after the death of his family, is offered a chance for justice and leaps at this. Taking on a baffling, deranged murder case he is soon chasing secret societies reaching back to the 15th Century and beyond.
In London, he meets the beautiful Sarvin Hillu after a near-deadly double-cross. She offers to take him to the heart of the mystery in back of it all.The pair set off on a terrifying cat and mouse chase across France that leads to an attack on the heart of Paris.
The Bureau of Unexplained Deaths is a thrilling puzzle-box involving government agencies, secret societies, conspiracies, and an ancient cold war. Readers of Dan Brown and Philip K. Dick will need to buckle up for this mysterious, action-packed roller-coaster ride.
The Bureau of Unexplained Deaths is the third book in the Kozmos & Khaos series.
Smack that buy button to find out what happens to Theo & Sarvin when they threaten to expose secrets reaching back into a dark and ancient past never before exposed.
307 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 5, 2019
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About the author
David S. Wellhauser
26 books188 followersDavid 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.
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.
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