A "riveting" crime thriller about human trafficking and sex slavery set in America and southeast Asia, "Petrocelli" is not for the timid or faint-hearted. Lenny Petrocelli had always been a slacker, a mediocre low-life, getting by on his good looks and street smarts. One day he woke up. Entangled by his gangland bosses in the web of child prostitution and human trafficking, he was being set up as the fall guy to take the rap, if the horrifying but lucrative enterprise went down. Seeing the … [Read more...] about Petrocelli by John Rachel
Blinders Keepers by John Rachel
LAUGHING IS SERIOUS BUSINESS! In this dark comedy, a young man who manages to escape his hayseed hometown situated in Bible-Belt Missouri is mistakenly hunted down by the national security agencies as a terrorist, while the President plagued by an America in chaos and collapse perpetrates an end-of-the-world hoax, in a desperate attempt to get himself re-elected. Any resemblance to the absurdity of our current political charade is coincidental. Blinders Keepers is humor and commentary in the … [Read more...] about Blinders Keepers by John Rachel
Petrocelli by John Rachel
Lenny Petrocelli had always been a slacker, a mediocre low-life, getting by on his good looks and street smarts. One day he woke up. Entangled by his gangland bosses in the web of child prostitution and human trafficking, he was being set up as the fall guy to take the rap, if the horrifying but lucrative enterprise went down. Seeing the violence and abuse young girls from Asia were subjected to in the gruesome world of sex slavery, Lenny did the most difficult but the most important thing … [Read more...] about Petrocelli by John Rachel
Interview with Author – John Rachel
About John Rachel: John Rachel has a B.A. in Philosophy, has traveled extensively, been a songwriter and music producer, and is a bipolar humanist. He has spent his life trying to resolve the intrinsic clash between the metaphysical purity of Buddhism and the overwhelming appeal of narcissism. Lately, that has translated into a lot of travel and writing. Following his impulsive and poorly planned departure from the U.S. in 2006, he has visited and lived-in 32 countries. At first as he bounced … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – John Rachel
The Man Who Loved Too Much – Book 1: Archipelago by John Rachel
Poor Billy Green! When he was just turning four, his father tried to throw him in the trash. He was a smart kid but that just seemed to create enemies. His mom did everything to protect him. But this was Detroit, armpit of the wasteland! Catholic school didn’t help much, except the time he got his first kiss from an atheist nun. Home life was dismal. Was his father capable of anything but drinking beer and farting? And what was with that neighbor who made puppets and tried to molest Billy? … [Read more...] about The Man Who Loved Too Much – Book 1: Archipelago by John Rachel
Blinders Keepers by John Rachel by John Rachel @jdrachel
In this dark comedy, a young man who escapes his hopelessly hayseed home town in Missouri is mistakenly labeled a terrorist and must survive a manhunt by government security agencies, while the President of an America in chaos and collapse perpetrates an end-of-the-world hoax, attempting to reclaim control and get himself re-elected. Blinders Keepers is social-political satire in the tradition of Jonathan Swift, Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, but revved up and spit-shined to take on the … [Read more...] about Blinders Keepers by John Rachel by John Rachel @jdrachel
