Kirjahaku

A murdered teenager and a citywide scandal. Portland Homicide Detective John Dudek investigates the death of a seventeen-year-old boy and becomes increasingly disturbed by what he learns about the victim. So much so that Dudek's troubled mind becomes as filled with fantasies about derby girls and the lyrics of classic grunge songs as it does with the horrors and violence that are slowly drowning him. DOGS IN THE DISTANCE is the first in the John Dudek series of crime novels that also includes FERAL BEASTS and KAIJU.

Homicide Detective John Dudek is dying. The result of a night of self-indulgence after learning that the love of his life is pregnant and getting married to another man. He is offered one chance to survive. A chance given to him by a giant, talking, thousand-year-old sea turtle. He can live. But only if he saves the entire world first. Dudek's encounter leaves him questioning everything. As this is happening, he begins to investigate the disappearance of a medical researcher and learns that he is now part of a secret government program involving deadly plagues and mind control. His other cases get even more bizarre. They start to reveal a possible holy war between rock star/alien/antichrist worshippers and beautiful, murderous, scuba girls. Dudek soon finds himself in a world of ray guns and space spiders facing cosmic invaders and giant Godzilla-like monsters trying to enslave mankind. The world he must save if he is to save himself and the amazing young woman he has fallen in love with. As dark, tragic and unsettling as it is imaginative, KAIJU takes the reader on a journey they will never forget.

A hallucinatory layer cake of Kpop girls, killer robots, drug-addled presidents and the nature of memory. Imagine if your every memory, every regret and every desire were somehow projected into another plane of existence just beyond our own. Imagine that these echoes of your life were so strong that it created a physical presence. Philip Johnson is such a being. A creature composed of the memories, desires, and regrets of another. Yet, also independent with his own thoughts and will. Human but not human. A spectral being living in a world like our own but distorted into a dream-like purgatory. Philip's journey leads him through a world of Orwellian hospitals, organized crime, and the halls of power in Washington D.C. Along the way, he learns who he is and what he has done, including taking part in of the most traumatic events of the Twentieth Century. After coming to terms with this reality, he takes the final step in understanding his true nature. He leaves his world and enters ours. A ghost to confront the one who created him.

One dead girl. Two cops. A virus killing millions. FERAL BEASTS is the story of Detective John Dudek (DOGS IN THE DISTANCE, KAIJU) as he is plunged into a world of deranged street dwellers, wanna-be models, and over-privileged hipsters living through a global pandemic. As fear and anxiety grow, the lines between reality and paranoia become blurred. Especially, for Dudek himself.