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A disavowed CIA spook turned art thief steals a Guatemalan artist's masterpiece, the day before the exhibition in a Rothschild-owned gallery, and finds out that was a huge mistake.
The former future of espionage, the disavowed darling of the Deep State, Guy Fox is forced out of retirement. It seems the globalist plan for a Great Reset is unravelling. Too many whistleblowers are sounding the alarm about Covid, and too many voters doubt the results of the presidential election. Something has to be done, and Guy is just the one to do it. And when he refuses, as they knew he would, his former employers make him an offer he can't refuse.
Trying to get away from it all, a newly-retired conflict zone restaurateur rents a villa at Guatemala’s stunning Lake Atitlan. Not far away, a brothel on Hibiscus Lane has become the new bohemian hangout for an Instagram princess, a MGTOW war photographer, a hipster Bitcoin trader, a gender-fluid social justice warrior, a lively gay couple and a colorful gang of backpackers. It seems our hero will find everything but R&R.
a work in progress
After seeing some of the worst Humanity has to offer, Johnny rises to be a chef of the Elite, the predator class. In his privileged position, he learns of their horrific practices and their plan to depopulate the world. Part of him feels this would be a good thing, because of all he has suffered. Maybe this is his being saved from such a fate, and he can now enjoy a “better” world. Or is it his destiny to save the innocent and the guilty alike, by poisoning the evil people who enjoy his food? He has very little time to decide. Then he meets her, the stunning Latin beauty who sets his heart on fire, and his world is turned upside-down. With his first chance at fame and success in a delicate balance, he finds himself risking it all for love.
Johnny Yen is a thirty-year-old boy—a heart-breaking, hard-drinking, bar-fighting artist gambling with his life, only now, the stakes are higher than ever and he finally meets his match. Learning how to become a man is hard enough without also trying to crack the greatest mystery of all—the mind of a woman.
An anthology of the first three Memoirs of a Swine volumes, which follow.
When Megan, a quirky used-records store clerk, gets swept off her feet by an unhappily-married man, it surprises her what she’s willing to do to keep him. On Kindle and in paperback Click Here
Palm Beach prodigal son Johnny Yen is wearing out his welcome. After losing the best of his twenties in a five-year prison stint, he has been making up for lost time. Some think he'll find neither redemption nor a wife across the bridge on Downtown Clematis, but he is running out of places to look. Then he meets her, an heiress who, like him, walks to the beat of a different drum.
Johnny Yen is in way over his head. Following his true love—or at least, who he thought was his true love—to magical Antigua Guatemala, he walks right into a den of theives, con-artists and murderers. He doesn’t speak the language, doesn’t know a soul, and once his money disappears, he’s stuck there until the date on his return ticket. If he can live that long. Luckily, he has a few tricks up his sleeve, learnt during a dark past he’s trying to forget. Is this the moment the thirty-year-old boy finally becomes a man? Or another gringo in a shallow grave?
Artist and adventurer Johnny Yen has finally settled down, with entirely the wrong woman. Trapped in a marriage gone sour, he hopes to work hard enough to set himself free. Then he meets her, the stunning Latin beauty who sets his heart on fire, and his world is turned upside-down. The heart-breaking, hard-drinking, bar-fighting vagabond still gambles with his life, only now, the stakes are higher than ever, and he finally meets his match.
Johnny Yen finally finds the key to success, and all it will cost is his soul. Catering orgies for the jet-setting swingers of Antigua has impressed the most evil and depraved people in the world—the ones who govern it. Now the heart-breaking, hard-drinking thirty-year-old boy finally learns what it means to become a man, and will do anything he can to avoid it.
An anthology of Memoirs of a Swine Vol. III and IV (which can be read without I and II) in which Johnny’s rise to fame coincides with his descent into madness.
An entire nation is on the move, seeking asylum in Navarre, while civil unrest seethes just beneath the surface of the capital. Open rebellion is at hand, and an ancient evil is stirring in the tunnels that honeycomb the troubled land.
In an epic tale that spans three continents, two men walk a tightrope between Good and Evil.
Famous opera singer and Russian roulette enthusiast Chandler Tuttle uses his one bullet to save a life in La Antigua Guatemala. From then on, his world is turned upside-down. After a whirlwind of adventure, he and his new friend part ways, but their destinies are bound. Back in London to continue his tour, he falls in love with a stunning and mysterious Chinese girl, and is dragged into the seedy underworld of the Big Smoke.
Plunged into intrigue and treachery, he finds a better use for his gun. But when his back’s against the wall, he may have no choice but to call in the favor of the life he saved—Rabbit’s.
An inspiring, brutally honest, sometimes hilarious look at the world we think we live in. The author went from zero to hero, from a good-for-nothing prodigal son and collector of participation trophies, to the Renaissance Man--chef-owner of a very popular restaurant, author of more than twenty books, successful Baroque artist and philanthropist--and all it took was a lot of hard work and discipline. That, and knowing exactly how the deck is stacked against us all, and how we can beat the system.
En una historia épica, dos hombres caminan por la cuerda floja entre el Bien y el Mal. El famoso cantante de ópera y entusiasta de la ruleta rusa Chandler Tuttle usa su única bala para salvar una vida en La Antigua Guatemala. A partir de entonces, su mundo se pone patas arriba. Después de un torbellino de aventura él y su nuevo amigo se separan, pero sus destinos están atados. De regreso a Londres para continuar su gira, se enamora de una deslumbrante y misteriosa china, y es arrastrado al sórdido inframundo del Big Smoke. Sumido en la intriga y la traición, encuentra un mejor uso para su arma. Pero cuando su espalda está contra la pared, puede que no tenga más remedio que pedir recompensa por la vida que salvó. Para verlo en Amazon
Something awful must’ve happened last summer in Palm Beach, turning a teenaged Rabbit into a drunken shadow of his former self. He won’t talk about it, but there’s enough gossip going around. Whatever really happened, it left him an orphan and a millionaire at 18.
The ghosts in the lonely mansion drove him out at night to find company, and he fell in with the wrong crowd—a crowd of thieves, hookers, druggies and murderers, the best friends money can buy. While his rapid descent into South Florida’s criminal underbelly is shocking, it’s not nearly as horrifying as discovering his family’s awful secret.
Pecado was one of those restaurants with exposed brick, mosaics, hanging plants, blond wood, brass railings, etched glass and ristras of red chiles like hanging firecracker strings. Their best dish was veal with plantains, mango sauce and cayenne pepper, but their most popular was the cocaine they didn't list on the menu. I worked for them, but not as a buss boy.
I bought my own car with my own money, which pissed my dad off. I bought my own clothes and food when he gave me this lecture about his role as a parent, and after he realized I didn't need him anymore, he just bided his time. My eighteenth birthday cake read "Get Lost."
Palm Beach, Florida circa 1998. The exclusive island of polo, golf, and champagne brunches, yacht marinas, Mediterranean Revival mansions & two-faced gold-diggers who’ll do anything to be a part of it. Across the bridge, in downtown West Palm, a new nightclub has opened, and one of the island’s self-imposed exiles is trying to earn his way back. But the list of people out to stop him is getting long. Like Simone Brennan. A couple of years ago, she was strutting down the catwalks of Milan, Paris, and Tokyo. Wouldn’t know it to look at her now, swinging around the pole in Diabolique, g-string stuffed with ones. She’s still got a day job, though. You look close enough, you can see the sticky residue of the tape that held a microphone in her cleavage that afternoon. If she’s got a shot at redemption, she’ll step on anyone to get it.
The harrowing story of a young man born into a cult of unspeakable evil, struggling to break away and find meaning in his life. On the eve of a Black Mass, when he must take the final step to become a true servant of the Devil, the Fates step in to stop him. But it’s out of the frying pan, into the fire. He is thrown into the county jail, where he’s forced to see up close the dregs of society his “church” has helped to create. If he can manage to survive it, he’ll need all the tricks of his dark past, so what hope is there he can also save his soul?
Helen of Troy, sitting on a balcony in the palace of Ilium, about to notice a thousand Greek ships on the horizon.
Claudia Procula, the wife of Pontius Pilate, told her husband that he must not do any harm to Jesus Christ because he was a righteous man. Pilate, however, was under political pressure from Caiaphas, a high priest of the Jews, to have Jesus killed. Instead of accepting the responsibility of making a decision, he told some of his soldiers to go take care of it.
In the 4th Century BC, in the ancient Greek city of Delphi, the priestesses of Dionysus, the god of wine, found themselves "overcome with religious fervor" one night. That’s a nice way of saying they drank way too much wine, and they were dancing and singing, and they partied their way right out of Delphi and got lost in the wilderness. They wandered aimlessly for many hours, and finally stumbled into a city called Amphissa, some ten miles away. The problem is, the two cities happened to be at war at the time, but, again, the women were drunk, and tired, and they were happy to find a place to lie down, out of reach of wild animals. So, they made themselves at home, falling asleep on the ground in the town square, and in the morning, they were found by the townspeople.
Some of the hot-headed young men recognized them and said "Hey! They're from Delphi! Let's rape and kill them!" But the women of Amphissa said "Oh, no you won’t!" And they joined hands in a circle surrounding the sleeping priestesses and defended them until they woke up. Then, the women made them breakfast and led them out of their city into No-Man's Land, and pointed out their way home.
A Spanish conquistador couple flees a Mayan uprising, but the man is wounded. The woman has been caring for him, has torn her dress to make a sling for his arm, but he can go no further. They are hiding behind a tree, and she leans him against the trunk as she reaches around to unsheathe his sword, just as the savages find them. She will bravely make her stand without complaint, neither giving nor expecting any quarter.
Until now it was unheard of to depict an indigenous Guatemalan woman in this manner, and it has caused a bit of controversy. "Vos Maria" is a derogatory name for women of the lowest caste, not unlike "Bubba" in North America, or “Jules” in France, but the subject of this painting wears her label with pride.
Man was content with stone tools until his neighbor had bronze. Then bronze was all the rage until someone found iron. Our evolution has depended upon this need men have to improve their situation no matter how content they should be. Without this restless dissatisfaction, Man would never have made it across oceans, much less find himself exploring space.
A modern interpretation of the Greek myth, in which a man who has been recently divorced (as evidenced by the tan line where he used to wear his wedding ring) struggles against alcoholism and suicidal tendencies and attempts to recreate what he has lost through his art. The machine in the background is a mortising machine, which makes wood female. This illustrates the stubborn will of Mankind to make the world into what we want it to be, instead of accepting it as it is. Without this defiance, we would not have scuba tanks and airplanes.
The famous and controversial fountain in La Antigua Guatemala’s central park. Four mermaids squeeze water from their breasts to nourish the world.
There are people in the world today that will not notice if the electricity fails, or care about the price of oil, and would be surprised to learn that others pay for water.
The negative space stretching before this ballerina as she fastens her toe-shoe heightens the sense of anticipation. Soon, she will stride out onto the plywood stage that suggests her humble origin, and prove herself.
A group of Roman soldiers sit and admire the bridge they have just built, which will make the world easier to travel and spread the glory of Rome.
These so-called "conquistadores" are a handful of Spaniards fleeing an unpleasant serfdom in Europe. One might even call them refugees, seeking a better life in the New World, one that they´ll hack out of the wilderness with their own two hands. The leader is not wearing his military overcoat. He seems to have given it to a woman who appears pregnant. One could therefore assume that she is pregnant with his child, and also by the way she is looking daggers at the other woman, who might be following her man a little too closely. When he warns them that he senses danger, the second woman almost bumps into him, and that sets off alarm bells for the soon-to-be mother. She does what many women do. She stops walking with them, to see how far they get before noticing. Every step they take away from her is an admission of guilt. But she is testing them in entirely the wrong place, oblivious to the very real danger beside her.
