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Skull Island
One skull down — two to go.
Jonathan Drake and crew are in a race against time. Along with Pearl, Henry, and Sitti the pataphysician races across Latin America in search of the second skull.
Madame Lu Laveau has her own troubles. Seeking aid against the Magickals hunting Edgar Price’s journals she’s on the dodge from Brazil to West Africa and a camp of Indonesian cannibals.
As Lu, Angel, and Eduard come together in a shaky alliance, along with an ancient chaos god and the mysterious Vodou loa, magick is breaking loose from the Noösphere.
The two groups hurtle toward an action-packed, tragic, confrontation on Skull Island in the Bering Sea.
In this third installment of The Pataphysician, a year has passed since the events in New Orleans. The stakes have risen and the troupe of shady heroes has bumbled into a game that threatens not only the Earth but the multi-verse. Breakneck action, mystery, romance, improbable adventure all combine in this occult vortex as the world loses its grip on reality.
Readers who enjoy Grimdark, Fantasy/Horror, Dan Brown, Alternative History, Crime, and Noir characters will find a home in The Pataphysician series. Dark, twisted, and evil the world of The Pataphysician takes readers on a wild ride to salvation and tragedy.
Get your copy today to follow Jonathan and the Imagineers as they race to save themselves and maybe the world.
Jonathan Drake and crew are in a race against time. Along with Pearl, Henry, and Sitti the pataphysician races across Latin America in search of the second skull.
Madame Lu Laveau has her own troubles. Seeking aid against the Magickals hunting Edgar Price’s journals she’s on the dodge from Brazil to West Africa and a camp of Indonesian cannibals.
As Lu, Angel, and Eduard come together in a shaky alliance, along with an ancient chaos god and the mysterious Vodou loa, magick is breaking loose from the Noösphere.
The two groups hurtle toward an action-packed, tragic, confrontation on Skull Island in the Bering Sea.
In this third installment of The Pataphysician, a year has passed since the events in New Orleans. The stakes have risen and the troupe of shady heroes has bumbled into a game that threatens not only the Earth but the multi-verse. Breakneck action, mystery, romance, improbable adventure all combine in this occult vortex as the world loses its grip on reality.
Readers who enjoy Grimdark, Fantasy/Horror, Dan Brown, Alternative History, Crime, and Noir characters will find a home in The Pataphysician series. Dark, twisted, and evil the world of The Pataphysician takes readers on a wild ride to salvation and tragedy.
Get your copy today to follow Jonathan and the Imagineers as they race to save themselves and maybe the world.
264 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 29, 2019
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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August 31, 2020
It isn’t really my type of book. I am more a a reality reader!
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