LOOSE WIRES: A PLAINCLOTHES INVESTIGATION

By Robert Rubenstein

A thrill squad detective has fallen in love with his liaise, a beautiful cunning working girl. It is a match not made in heaven, but it will do in the inglorious age of President Bully Maximus. The thrill squad has a mandate to uncover the vice, not to receive a thrill. Jack Justice, our detective recovering from electro-shock, knows the rules. He just cannot help himself. And Dr. Lark Wildflower is very handy with a scalpel and knows how to cut. She has her reasons. Love, obsessive and cannibalized, played out from the crumbling isle of Manhattan to New Mexico, through the Canyon de Muerte, the Canyon of Death-- with unforgettable characters-- Anima, a happy unsyphlitic liaise (the banned word, whore, is punishable by death,) and Dr. Rico Starks, M.D. who aims to cure or accuse his patient of unspeakable crimes. Bully Maximus, the President of the United States in future times. Does he remind us of anyone else when he reaches out and grabs a feel through the aural screen? And who is Dr.Wildflower except his Diabla, the liaise who conveys herself to him in dreams on the gurney, or in the cathouse on Da Hill Road? Known also as Gianna, what stories she has told.The undocs are starving. Revolution is in the air. One lone nuclear blast has upset the applecart. The earth is changing with its metallic despair. Jack Justice wants to now the nature of his love. The answer may be shocking and written in blood.Wildly inventive, an often poetic tour-de-force with a sardonic edge, Loose Wires is a dystopian noir novel. Satiric and fantastic. Horrific and sci-fi. Psychological fiction at its very best .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1798802708
• ISBN13: 9781798802700
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"