Maneater 2
In an equally terrifying sequel still in editing the reader follows a revitalized Chloe to the Amazon rain forest where she indulges in research and collects botanical specimens, she plans to use experimentally to elevate sexual passion to otherwise unattainable heights of excitement. She experiences a spiritual awakening on the Rio Negro River and feels transformed from her former role as a predatory temptress into a goddess whose mission is to create a feminist society that will eventually dominate American life. Aided by Candice Torres, Chloe flees west and establishes a retreat on the Olympic Peninsula for a devoted gathering of followers, enlisting the aid of what she believes are all the primitive deities of the Mayan pantheon to advance her radical beliefs and sacrificial practices. The FBI infiltrate her operation with indictments for using illegal drugs and a raid on her compound ensues, but Chloe escapes and secretly returns to Manhattan. She buys a midtown bar that becomes a headquarters for plans to build an organization of female warriors with the political and economic power to capsize all masculine controls in the city’s government and criminal hierarchy. Her ruthless tactics and devoted accomplices aid her in a mad reach for absolute control but at a rally she and all her lieutenants fall victim to explosives planted by political opponents and underworld adversaries. With life altering wounds the indomitable Chloe retreats to Cape Cod, but her enemies are determined to find and terminally halt her advance toward female dominion in the world.
Coming Attractions
Three finished novels may become a Native American Trilogy, each distinct from the other yet all sharing in a mission to comprehend the unique experience of contemporary Indigenous people. Unusual events and characters link the past and present to involve readers in difficult and often forced social adaptations. What was once exalted becomes common, tribal warriors and priests left in the mists of the past while war bonnets are replaced by hard hats and coveralls. The indigenous population is invisible by the roadside working to clear rocks and build bridges over rivers so the affluent and privileged have a smoothed transit to business as usual. American life goes on uninhibited by conservation of natural resources, attends to the needs of society with corporate farms, profitable mines, and unlimited drilling for oil. What shaman's chant or drumbeat can weather the storm of a forgotten heritage buried beneath casinos and temples dedicated to the advancement of intruders? What magic will return American dirt to Indigenous harvesting hands? The Trilogy presents a pageant of events that dare to gaze out over the broad North Amrican continent and suggest its indigenous people remain a precious resource along with the many other treasures it yielded.
Savage
introduces a Seminole displaced from the Florida swamps and living in Chicago, the son of a successful criminal loan shark and target of his father's enemies. Street wars make Jack Savage a hunted man who flees south to find sanctuary in the everglades. Bound by ancestral laws taught to him by his clan mentors, he dares to challenge taboos forbidding the exploitation of wildlife by capturing a giant Burmese python in the glades and displaying it as a public attraction for tourists. A publicity campaign alerts his enemies in Chicago who soon show up in Florida looking for Jack. Their attempts to assassinate him fail and he survives by committing a grisly triple murder involving the massive serpent. Jack and his lover Morocco become fugitives and flee cross country to the tip of Baja, crossing the Sea of Cortez to traverse Mexico. A bandit leader in the Sierra Madre wilderness helps them get across the border to Texas and the two eventually find sanctuary on the streets of New Orleans. They carry money stolen from the cartel that draws the notice of Mexican drug lords who enlist practitioners of the dark arts to abduct Morocco as a sacrificial offering. Jacks's vengeance exacts a terrible price on his enemies, but it is nothing next to what he must face when hiding deep in the glades Jack learns there is no escaping dire penalties for violating the sacred laws of the Seminole.
Sun Woman
Sun Woman works as an exotic dancer in a Wyoming bar. She establishes a relationship with a black ranch carpenter, robs the bar's cashbox, and flees into the mountains with her new lover. They live a solitary and idyllic life until her partner drunk on homemade whiskey attempts to take on a mountain lion barehanded and leaves her widowed and alone in the wilderness. Intoxicated when elk hunters arrive at her cabin to ask directions, she fears they will molest her and takes aim with her shotgun, killing two while a third man escapes. The murders lead to a standoff with rangers ending with Sun Woman's disappearance in deep mountain caverns. She reappears some years later as a respectable professor dedicated to the education of Indian youth. Her transformation involved chance occurrences and strange alliances that civilized and made her a respected teacher, yet she remains a hunted woman leading a double life. Sun Woman shifts from one role to the other in reaction to a white world intent on locking her behind bars. Fiercely defiant, she avoids arrest and rather commands a group of renegades' who plan to destroy a resort casino built on a sacred Indian burial site. Her destiny seems bleak when the rangers corner her in a wilderness stronghold and she is left to decide if life is more precious than honor.
City of Gold
extends from the early Spanish conquests of American Indian empires to a modern sanitarium where Joe Mercer and his companion Magda find temporary refuge from federal authorities. Mercer returned from an expedition in the high Sierras with a vision and talisman that held mesmerizing powers able to influence decisions in the Senate and House of Representatives. What appeared as changes that disrupted the mechanisms of government seemed to restore Indian pride and impose the hypnotic power of ancient Mesoamerican priests to legislate and implement pro-Indian policies in Washington. When reason tempers the passions of tribal chiefs they abandon efforts to impose Native American edicts on a modern nation against its will. Joe becomes an outcast who with Magda embarks on a whirlwind of adventures that carry them north to Montana's Flathead Lake, and across the great divide to the asylum. After some months they feel safe to resume their journey and finally purchase a secluded farm of their own in Amish country, but shadows from the past follow them. Crow Man, a radical revolutionary zealot threatens to disclose Joe's location if he refuses to lead yet another insurrection against the white power structure. Mercer sees it as a proposition that would force him to give up the benefits of anonymity, and magnify his concern for the welfare of Magda and their soon to be born child. He conceives of a desperate plan to salvage his honor and resist the hopeless path of war.
The Helmsman
The Helmsman is a novel reworked from an earlier book leaned down to a readable length and edited so the extensive thematic tributaries were eliminated to strengthen the mainstream. Still in an editing stage it is strongly relevant to current environmental concerns with fossil fuel pollution leading to experiments with nuclear reactors threatening to irrevocably damage our biosphere.
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Savage
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The Helmsman
The Helmsman is a novel reworked from an earlier book leaned down to a readable length and edited so the extensive thematic tributaries were eliminated to strengthen the mainstream. Still in an editing stage it is strongly relevant to current environmental concerns with fossil fuel pollution leading to experiments with nuclear reactors threatening to irrevocably damage our biosphere.