Detective Gugel has spent years in the South American jungle and is an initiated shaman. He is especially devoted to peyote. Peyote, which along with his shamanistic-yogic training, gives him certain "powers." He sees the everyday world as merely the foyer that leads into a gigantic spiritual arena where "real" reality exists. A woman has been napalmed to death in her driveway in Grimore Park, a wealthy suburb north of Chicago and Gugel is called in on the case. The case takes Gugel to East Lansing, Michigan, where he begins his investigation and ultimately learns the murdered woman was a diabolical monster with evil plans for all who crossed her path.

Author Biography

Hugh Fox is a Professor Emeritus, archeologist, editor, writer, and iconic writer of international fame. His styles ranges from super academic to Dadaistic to surrealistic to avant garde to post-Bukowski realism. For decades, whatever his creative style at the time, fans have celebrated the earthy and erudite experience that is Hugh Fox. His works tell a personal, intimate epiphanal unfolding of an exceptional man's life. He allows readers to feel the textures, taste the bitter and sweet, see the ghosts of his past. Between these covers lie dramas, great and small: cosmic rumbles; erotic romps; thermonuclear apocalyptic visions; ecological nightmares; cultures and rituals seen through a wormhole into primeval times. Readers share the Hugh Fox reality.