Millennial Blues: A Novel of New Mexico - Tapa blanda

Molly Bender, new to the Santa Fe Police Department, has to join Special Agent Wink Hoodle of the FBI in a task force to investigate strange doings at Guru Ram's religious cult, the sky-blue-robed Jebudindu, in nearby Barsalona, New Mexico. With her new friend Harry Fine, an ex-newspaperman who now writes a nasty advice-to-the-lovelorn column under the name of Miz Tingle, Molly moves out to join the ashram as an undercover agent, where she meets the rabid Ma Lisha, pistol-packing chief assistant to charismatic, handsome Guru Ram; and 16-year-old Angel Cruz, a member of the twelve remaining Hispanic families of Old Barsalona, now renamed New Jericho by the Guru and his gang of loopy malcontents, misfits, winos and freaks. Molly and Harry and Angel try to foil the cult's plans to take over tiny Antelope County by means of imported voters, a gem heist, forged securities, murder, and a last-ditch attempt to poison the thousand unsuspecting members of the cult.

FIL LEWITT, an American, lives tri-nationally in the US, Japan, and Thailand. He has worked as a jazz musician, dishwasher, store clerk, restaurant cook, logger, mill worker, hotel gardener, farmer, designer, carpenter, and university teacher. Lewitt grew up in a small town in New Hampshire, went to too many fancy schools, moved to San Francisco, then to Pescadero, California, where he lived in an early commune which was also a nudist park, then to Mendocino, California, where he ran a Zen Buddhist farm commune, then on to Japan and Thailand. As well as living in all these places, he travels a lot, with shorter living stints in Boston, Santa Fe, Venezia, and Paris. He is the author of three novels, all available from CreateSpace.com / Amazon.com. Working in a genre he works in "lit-pop," his novels are all very funny and serious at the same time. His debut novel, TIGHT, is both a satirical novel about the sexual revolution of the 1960s in San Francisco and a thriller involving the kidnap of a beautiful young Asian woman. His second novel, DEAD WHITE MALES, set in Santa Fe in the 1990s, is a riotous view of so-called higher education featuring truly oddball faculty members and an on-campus serial killer. His third novel, MILLENNIAL BLUES, takes place at the turn of the millennium in a small town near Santa Fe which a cult leader has taken over, and a new woman detective on the SFPD goes undercover to solve a rash of heists and murders. Lewitt does not write series or supermarket-shelf novels, which may account for his rather large collection of personalized rejection slips telling him that although he writes really well, his books might be a hard sell to publishing conglomerates looking for quick bucks in mass-market series. He has also published a lot of poetry and articles in various magazines. The author can be reached at .