What do;

• A mother
• A Father
• A Viet Nam veteran, partially paralyzed by a drug overdose,
• His impetuous 18 year old girlfriend and her promiscuous friend,
• A pair of stoner college professors,
• A former bombshell starlet, and her cowboy husband,
• A notorious epileptic Italian actor/director and his young wife bought from a Serbian Gypsy,
• An enigmatic cult leader who is rumored to be a murderer,
• A Native American Pentecostal preacher,
• The Chinese Underground,
• A goat doctor and a human-flesh eating dog have in common?

They all come together, in a Far Strange Country!

A Far Strange Country: Feast of Consequences picks up after Book 1 and is set against the backdrop of social unrest, the rise of the drug culture, psychedelia, and assassinations. Cinematic narratives and crisp dialog bring elements of 1968 California to life in this tightly-written novel. Five couples of different lifestyles and ages interweave their personal choices together in a world of changing attitudes and ideals.

Our Characters:

Thrown into the mix are Buck and Pauline Harper a staid couple who are trying to ride out 1968 on their ranch in the Sierra Nevada foothills. A telegram arrives, telling them that their son Steven Harper is in a San Francisco hospital following a heroin drug overdose. They discover that they are grandparents to a three-year-old boy Donovan whose mother is Steven’s 18 year old girlfriend Shara.

At the same time in Los Angeles, Donatello Dragghi an epileptic is lying low to stay out of the line of fire from an organized crime family. He is forced to leave Italy where he was a movie director to hide out in America. At the same time, he's slowly going broke and looking for an infusion of cash. The one who takes the brunt of his neglect and abuse is his young wife Slovika who was bought from a Serbian Gypsy in a forced marriage.

We have Parker, the pop-culture guru, author who is suspected of murdering a follower to acquire a property in Big Sur. His personal assistant named Gregg tries to balance his own mundane life with Parker’s cosmic brilliance.

And then there's Deborah Donaldson, a 30-year-old buxom blond and former beach movie starlet and a daytime TV host with her estranged cowboy husband - Bob Morant, a drummer in a popular 60s band. Deborah's spiritual advisor is Parker. Bob finds Parker's mystic ways dubious at best, and does whatever he can to undermine him.

Each of our characters has a dream to fight for, and each of them has their debts to pay. They all have an individual story and as they come together they create a story that's new and most unexpected.

Book 2 Continues.

In A Far Strange Country: Feast of Consequences, Parker's Orion Institute is ablaze and inflicting mayhem into the souls of all who attended his Summer Solstice Convergence party in Big Sur. The fire sets our menagerie of characters adrift on the road to escape the fire, the police, the press, and each other. Parker is the focus of a statewide manhunt and is looking for a way out of Big Sur without being detected. Steven is still looking to the stars to find a reason to believe that Shara will return. Donatello has overdosed on LSD by Parker and Bob is trying to wrangle the whole cast together to escape from the fire and go North. Deborah attempts to help Parker escape from the fire and police by going South.

Feast of Consequences takes place in San Francisco, Berkeley, Napa, Los Angeles, Big Sur, and the Sierra Nevada foothills of California. Hippies, ranchers, and film stars illustrate the central theme: choices and actions can have consequences, and you reap what you sow.