Bøger af Nathan Pettijohn

Samael Ackerman grew up in a midsized city as member of a lower middle class family. He and his family have endured one tragedy after another. Passionate about history, political theory and religious studies, Sam always sensed there was something... wrong... with the world. While being knocked down by one horrific event after another, Sam stumbles across an old man named Vlad. Sam soon discovers Vlad holds not only the keys to the secrets of Earth's history but information about those who hold the reins of power in the halls of government and religion. Hiring Sam to be the caretaker of his extensive personal library, Vlad slowly unveils riddles that introduce a menacing character into Sam's life. Nothing is as it seems. Alien colonization. Organized crime syndicates. Covert intelligence operatives masquerading as religious harbingers. Political leaders working for unseen forces. Sam uncovers these mysteries one by one as he discovers our world is nothing but a planetary insane asylum under quarantine. No matter how many layers Sam peels back, Vlad and his comrades show him an unending string of dimensions to the horrific madness that we know as Earth. Just as Sam begins to trust that he has found the final layer, he is confronted with the biggest conspiracy of all - is the afterlife only a continuation of the mass scale dementia?

The prank pact was meant to be fun. Now they just want to live through it.Tulsa, 2006. Jon Ryan and his three best friends spend the final days of their senior year goofing off and taking mushrooms at casino concerts, keeping adulthood at arms' length as long as possible. To memorialize their time together, they make a pact: one prank per person, per night, on the last week of school.From subtle psychological torture and glitter bombs to a stolen llama and a dead body in the trunk, what begins as harmless fun escalates into a matter of life and death.The pranks lead to a head-on collision with their mailbox aficionado principal, their jewel-thief history teacher, and a slew of petty criminals, oil-money gangsters, and the Japanese mob. It's a hell of a final exam to pass if the boys hope to live till graduation.