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MR MOJO RISIN
“A hilarious, action-packed thrill ride in an alternate 1990s, Mr Mojo Risin is the love child of Carl Hiaasen’s wacky cynicism and the subversive whimsy of Tom Robbins. One of the wildest, most intriguing books I’ve ever read. Manically inventive, uproariously funny, Mr Mojo Risin is a frenetic tour de farce.”
Thomas K. Arnold
Former Chief Music Writer, Los Angeles Times
Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, and Jimi Hendrix are back, twenty-five years after the CIA faked their deaths when a Soviet deep-cover agent outed the network of world-touring artists couriering sensitive agency documents. Jimi Hendrix is invisible. He was “recruited” for a top-secret Pentagon project after early results suggested marijuana users made the best test subjects. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs uses Jimi’s command performance at the White House to convince the gullible president America needs Rastafarians to stay ahead of the Russians in the invisibility race and get the green light to annex Jamaica as the fifty-first state.
Jim Morrison’s living quietly in northern Virginia. An Apache shaman appears in a dream and summons him to Las Vegas. Unable to fall back asleep, he’s downstairs making hot chocolate when he gets an unexpected visit from Elvis Presley. Spurred by the dream and cryptic messages from Elvis’s mysterious chatroom friend, they drive to Washington, collect Jimi, and set off on a cross-country road trip to Sin City. When the chairman realizes the invisibility program’s only completely successful test subject has “disappeared,” he sends SEAL Team 13, a special-ops unit that’s the modern military equivalent of Viking berserkers, to bring Hendrix back at any cost.
The White House is finalizing plans for a two-pronged, jet-ski assault that will launch simultaneously from Guantanamo Bay and Port-au-Prince and converge in a massive, personal watercraft flotilla. From the rendezvous point, the coalition of state and national guard units will storm the beaches south of Kingston in a Kodak moment as iconic as the flag-raising on Iwo Jima. After establishing a secure base of operations, expeditionary forces will target key military and government installations and seize control of the island nation. The raise an invisible army of Rastafarians, the first step in a master plan to rule the world.
Time is short. Mission resources are on the ready line. Morrison, Elvis, Jimi, and their oddball collection of allies, a Jamaican steel-drum band, a senior citizen RV club, and a militia of midget Elvis impersonators, are all that stand against the Sea-Doo armada and the rise of a new world order.
Thomas K. Arnold
Former Chief Music Writer, Los Angeles Times
Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, and Jimi Hendrix are back, twenty-five years after the CIA faked their deaths when a Soviet deep-cover agent outed the network of world-touring artists couriering sensitive agency documents. Jimi Hendrix is invisible. He was “recruited” for a top-secret Pentagon project after early results suggested marijuana users made the best test subjects. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs uses Jimi’s command performance at the White House to convince the gullible president America needs Rastafarians to stay ahead of the Russians in the invisibility race and get the green light to annex Jamaica as the fifty-first state.
Jim Morrison’s living quietly in northern Virginia. An Apache shaman appears in a dream and summons him to Las Vegas. Unable to fall back asleep, he’s downstairs making hot chocolate when he gets an unexpected visit from Elvis Presley. Spurred by the dream and cryptic messages from Elvis’s mysterious chatroom friend, they drive to Washington, collect Jimi, and set off on a cross-country road trip to Sin City. When the chairman realizes the invisibility program’s only completely successful test subject has “disappeared,” he sends SEAL Team 13, a special-ops unit that’s the modern military equivalent of Viking berserkers, to bring Hendrix back at any cost.
The White House is finalizing plans for a two-pronged, jet-ski assault that will launch simultaneously from Guantanamo Bay and Port-au-Prince and converge in a massive, personal watercraft flotilla. From the rendezvous point, the coalition of state and national guard units will storm the beaches south of Kingston in a Kodak moment as iconic as the flag-raising on Iwo Jima. After establishing a secure base of operations, expeditionary forces will target key military and government installations and seize control of the island nation. The raise an invisible army of Rastafarians, the first step in a master plan to rule the world.
Time is short. Mission resources are on the ready line. Morrison, Elvis, Jimi, and their oddball collection of allies, a Jamaican steel-drum band, a senior citizen RV club, and a militia of midget Elvis impersonators, are all that stand against the Sea-Doo armada and the rise of a new world order.
337 pages, Paperback
Published February 28, 2022
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August 23, 2024
It is a good first draft, but I don't really think it is ready yet.
I really think a strong editor could help here. Forgetting matters of taste, there are just too many named characters in this thing that end up contributing nothing of value to the story. For a reader, this is off putting since you really aren't sure who is important to the story and who isn't.
Who is the protagonist? If it is Jim Morrison, what does he contribute to the overall story? If this thing is about an alternate universe where Morrison, Elvis and Hendricks didn't die and instead went in to witness protection for 20 years, what do they contribute to the story that any other character does not? Is there something to their history, personality, experiences or abilities that make it so they can handle the events no one else can?
There are other problems, but overall, I think it needs a rewrite or at least next time a strong editor who can help clean up characters and story points that go no where.
I really think a strong editor could help here. Forgetting matters of taste, there are just too many named characters in this thing that end up contributing nothing of value to the story. For a reader, this is off putting since you really aren't sure who is important to the story and who isn't.
Who is the protagonist? If it is Jim Morrison, what does he contribute to the overall story? If this thing is about an alternate universe where Morrison, Elvis and Hendricks didn't die and instead went in to witness protection for 20 years, what do they contribute to the story that any other character does not? Is there something to their history, personality, experiences or abilities that make it so they can handle the events no one else can?
There are other problems, but overall, I think it needs a rewrite or at least next time a strong editor who can help clean up characters and story points that go no where.
Displaying 1 of 1 review