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Crash Gordon and the Revelations from Big Sur

af Derek Swannson

Serier: Crash Gordon (2)

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An amnesiac convalescing in Big Sur encounters an oddly sinister envoy from the Freemasons' Scottish Rite Psychophrenic Research Program.... A stoned surfer trespassing on Hearst Castle property gets hauled up into the sky by a massive flying black triangle.... A notorious starlet attending the wrap party for her first major Hollywood movie assassinates a Moscow journalist with a bottle of radioactive nasal spray.... In Crash Gordon and the Revelations from Big Sur, Derek Swannson combines these elements into a comic and subversive international thriller. OCTOBER 1988: It's morning in America again. Ex-CIA Director George H. W. Bush is calling the shots as Vice President. Intelligence agency black budgets are on the rise. Ronald Reagan's trickle-down economics has been trickling upon the American populace for nearly eight years. It's been a non-stop champagne bash for the rich, who've become much richer, but for the middle class and the poor the trickling has acted like acidic piss, burning gaping holes in their social safety nets. Is the increase in suffering intentional? Gordon Swannson thinks so--and he has the metaphysics to prove it. Sort of. Fresh from a five-year resident scholar program at the Esalen Institute, Gordon (Crash to his friends) arrives in the sleepy seaside town of Cambria, California, to deliver a lecture titled "Galactic Loosh Farming and Reaganomics: How Much Longer Before the Fabric of Reality is Ripped to Shreds?" It's the start of a bizarre chain of events that will launch Gordon's career as an investigative journalist and entangle him with a cast of characters that includes: James Marrsden, a gleefully foul-mouthed radio DJ and Gordon's untrustworthy childhood best friend; Kayleigh Fuller, a stoner witch who happens to be the niece of Buckminster Fuller; Skeeze Lester Huntley, a porn-addicted surfer whose alien abduction inspired him to become the Dope King of Central California; Rina Rowley, a lovely young actress with a shockingly ugly past; and looming largest of all, James' morbidly obese and obscenely wealthy Uncle Lloyd, "super secret black-ops bagman for the medico-military-occult complex... and matchmaker." Determined to uncover the truth behind Lloyd's lurid tales of psychic killers and a mind control program known as Project MONARCH, Gordon chases down leads from Cambria to Amsterdam's red-light district and the Brussels headquarters of an alien-inspired sex cult calling itself The O D Institute--getting a profound education in the machinations behind the 20th century's greatest unexplained mysteries along the way. Seeking the final piece to the puzzle, Gordon returns to his roots in the isolated, faux-Swedish town of Kingsburg, where those mysteries began. What he finds there will send him hurtling toward a climactic showdown against a naked assassin dead set on turning the Cold War into a hot mess. Crash Gordon and the Revelations from Big Sur is the big, shaggy conspiracy novel that everyone has always wanted to read--without actually knowing it. There's a reason for that. They don't want you to know about it. You do know there's a They, don't you?… (mere)
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    DerekSwannson: A fictional romp through conspiratorial themes every bit as strange (and true) as you'll find in William Bramley's "The Gods of Eden."
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This is one of the most imaginative and engaging novels I've read in a long time. Some reviews have called it weird, but it is weird in a Hunter S. Thompson sort of way, which is one of the reasons I loved it. Characters unlike any others, wacky happenings, fact intertwined with fantasy and suspense are all here, but humorously, irreverently delivered. I am not usually a fan of conspiracy theories, aliens, Gnosticism or sex cults in my books but, when a book is truly well written and written by someone with a point of view and imagination, the subject matter really doesn't mean anything. I was pulled into this book from the first few pages and the longer I read the more absorbed I became. Simultaneously funny and riveting in a whodunit way, this book is truly unique and definitely worth your time. This book is destined to become a cult classic, with a plot that could have become a mess in the hands of a less talented writer but here is a joy to read. ( )
  ETC752 | Jul 5, 2014 |
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I was given this book in exchange for an honest review.

I love this Crash Gordon series. This is a brilliantly written, laugh out loud book. I was pulled in from the beginning and enjoyed the twists throughout the book. Definitely a must read! ( )
  sportzmomof5 | Apr 28, 2014 |
Crash Gordon and the Revelations from Big Sur by Derek Swannson is what I like to call intelligent writing, with a well-crafted and gripping conspiracy that will have you turning the pages and craving more! You won’t want to put this spell binding book down! I devoured it in nearly two sittings, would have been one if I had the time. Follow “Crash” through this conspiracy/fantasy type adventure and get caught up in a world of unexpected twists and turns, from a very talented author who makes visualizing this graphic and intense novel a breeze with his detailed writing and descriptiveness. This book provides a real mental and entertaining escape into the dark side of things and throws in a bit of everything from sex to murder making for an amazing read! I highly recommend this book! ( )
  HMChristi | Apr 3, 2014 |
Imaginative, Engaging & Exciting

This book was recently recommended to me and at first I was a little hesitant about whether it was my cup of tea or not, but very quickly I found myself swept up in this unusual, intriguing and imaginative tale. "Crash Gordon and the Revelations from Big Sur" has all the elements needed to make it a truly engaging novel, from an authentic and intriguing cast of characters to a fast-paced plot that makes you eagerly flip from page to page until the very end. It's sharp, evocative, lush and engaging... taking unusual twists and turns as the author weaves a tale of adventure, danger, intrigue, politics, mystery and occult tones. The writing is smooth with vibrant imagery and an ineffable quality to it that just makes you eager for more long after the story is over. Crash is a character that manages to catch you attention and keep it, all the way through his far reaching quest. Overall, this was an imaginative and exciting story that never disappointed and that has me eager to see what else has sprang forth from the author's creative mind. ( )
  the-bookreader | Mar 31, 2014 |
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That I am I.
That my soul is a dark forest.
That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest.
That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back.
That I must have the courage to let them come and go.
That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women.
There is my creed.
—D.H. Lawrence



Reality is not only stranger than we suppose, it may be stranger than we can suppose.
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An amnesiac convalescing in Big Sur encounters an oddly sinister envoy from the Freemasons' Scottish Rite Psychophrenic Research Program.... A stoned surfer trespassing on Hearst Castle property gets hauled up into the sky by a massive flying black triangle.... A notorious starlet attending the wrap party for her first major Hollywood movie assassinates a Moscow journalist with a bottle of radioactive nasal spray.... In Crash Gordon and the Revelations from Big Sur, Derek Swannson combines these elements into a comic and subversive international thriller. OCTOBER 1988: It's morning in America again. Ex-CIA Director George H. W. Bush is calling the shots as Vice President. Intelligence agency black budgets are on the rise. Ronald Reagan's trickle-down economics has been trickling upon the American populace for nearly eight years. It's been a non-stop champagne bash for the rich, who've become much richer, but for the middle class and the poor the trickling has acted like acidic piss, burning gaping holes in their social safety nets. Is the increase in suffering intentional? Gordon Swannson thinks so--and he has the metaphysics to prove it. Sort of. Fresh from a five-year resident scholar program at the Esalen Institute, Gordon (Crash to his friends) arrives in the sleepy seaside town of Cambria, California, to deliver a lecture titled "Galactic Loosh Farming and Reaganomics: How Much Longer Before the Fabric of Reality is Ripped to Shreds?" It's the start of a bizarre chain of events that will launch Gordon's career as an investigative journalist and entangle him with a cast of characters that includes: James Marrsden, a gleefully foul-mouthed radio DJ and Gordon's untrustworthy childhood best friend; Kayleigh Fuller, a stoner witch who happens to be the niece of Buckminster Fuller; Skeeze Lester Huntley, a porn-addicted surfer whose alien abduction inspired him to become the Dope King of Central California; Rina Rowley, a lovely young actress with a shockingly ugly past; and looming largest of all, James' morbidly obese and obscenely wealthy Uncle Lloyd, "super secret black-ops bagman for the medico-military-occult complex... and matchmaker." Determined to uncover the truth behind Lloyd's lurid tales of psychic killers and a mind control program known as Project MONARCH, Gordon chases down leads from Cambria to Amsterdam's red-light district and the Brussels headquarters of an alien-inspired sex cult calling itself The O D Institute--getting a profound education in the machinations behind the 20th century's greatest unexplained mysteries along the way. Seeking the final piece to the puzzle, Gordon returns to his roots in the isolated, faux-Swedish town of Kingsburg, where those mysteries began. What he finds there will send him hurtling toward a climactic showdown against a naked assassin dead set on turning the Cold War into a hot mess. Crash Gordon and the Revelations from Big Sur is the big, shaggy conspiracy novel that everyone has always wanted to read--without actually knowing it. There's a reason for that. They don't want you to know about it. You do know there's a They, don't you?

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