HALF PAST SATAN

It’s Christmas in San Francisco, 1949, but private investigator Alexander Blade is in no mood to celebrate. He’s taken a skip trace job in the Tenderloin to make ends meet. While he’s away from the office Fate steps in. His assistant, part time exotic dancer Paloma Liu Tsong, accepts a new client.

The client's retainer seems too good to be true until Paloma finds out the terms. She must use an Ouija board to contact the client’s murdered boss, noted UC Berkeley sociologist Roswell Dvorak, PhD, to catch his killer. The board sessions are off to a rocky start and only get worse, until Blade seeks the help of a native shaman known as “the Chief,” to straighten things out.

Blade learns that Professor Dvorak was a member of Omenon, a Marin County cult run by a former pulp fiction writer named Ananda Vedanta, and Blade suspects the cult may have had something to do with Dvorak’s death. Vedanta claims to get his information from an extraterrestrial source, and has written cosmic revelations into a series of science fiction stories that eventually became teachings for his cult.

But there’s more to Omenon than meets the eye. Behind the scene are Nazi scientists working on one of Hitler’s most top secret weapons programs: Project Mind Fuhrer, the A-Bomb to end all A-Bombs!

What began as a dalliance with an Ouija board, has turned into a plot to take over the world, and Blade is hemmed in by the Professor’s nympho daughter, an eccentric native shaman, and a long haired guru determined to destroy the planet.