Lord of the Loincloth Christopher Dow BUY NOW Price: $19.95 Format: Paperback Size: 9 x 6 Pages: 584 ISBN-10: 0979696801 ISBN-13: 978-0979696800 It’s World War I, and the fate of Africa lies in the hands of a madman—an eccentric Royal Navy commander who sank his two previous commands in the most ridiculous ways possible. Geoffrey Spicer-Simson is ordered to destroy two ships that give the Germans military control over the continent, but that may be easier said than done. The ships are on Lake Tanganyika, and to get there, Spicer-Simson and his men will have to drag two 40' gunboats over desert torn with ravines, through tsetse-infested swamps, and across a 6,000-foot range of mountains. Undaunted, Spicer-Simson forges ahead, but can his men accept the leadership of  a pretentious braggart who names his gunboats Mimi and Toutou, is completely covered with tattoos, and wears a leather skirt instead of a uniform? And if the journey to the lake isn’t bizarre enough, imagine what happens when they get there and meet the Germans in mortal combat on the high seas in the middle of Africa! Lord of the Loincloth is the humorously adventurous account of one of the 20th century’s strangest heroes and his extraordinary quest for redemption.

Devil of a Time Go to Hell! (For a little while) Christopher Dow BUY NOW Price: $18.99 Format: Paperback Size: 6x9 Pages: 330 ISBN 10: 0-9796968-2-8 ISBN 13: 978-9796968-2-4 In this raucously satirical take on the dangers of believing your own fictions, a corporate climber named Bob is just about to pull off the sweetest deal of his corrupt career when it’s snatched from his grasp. Worse, in the middle of cursing his unknown nemesis, Bob suffers a fatal heart attack that sends him plummeting into the pit of Hell. A flea-bitten Cerberus meets him at the door, a snot-nosed demon gives him a book of impossibly complex rules that all inmates in Hell are supposed to follow, and he’s sentenced to an eternity in the pit of boiling…well, let’s just say his punishment isn’t pleasant. But eternity is a long time—too damn long for someone as ambitious as Bob—especially after he finds a way to get around the rules and work his way to the top of Hell’s hierarchy. Besides, he has a secret weapon: a beautiful and mysterious but insistently tedious young woman who has attached herself to the Devil like a white shadow. Will the Devil manage to repower the faltering volcano that is the physical symbol of his potency? Will Bob wrest Hell from him and turn it into an amusement park? Will the Devil’s white shadow redecorate everything in sight? Whatever happens, you can be sure that all hell is gonna break loose!

The Dead Detective Christopher Dow BUY NOW Price: $18.99 Format: Trade Paper Pages: 316 ISBN: 978-0979696831 Teetering on the edge of the gutter, ex-cop Clay Guthrie is offered a way out of his bitter isolation. All he has to do is locate a stolen sculpture. The task seems simple enough, but Guthrie quickly finds himself enmeshed in a series of unreal events that push him to the breaking point. His employers, more disturbingly dangerous than the suspect, threaten him with pain and death if he fails, while their antagonist, a mysterious old man, forces Guthrie to act on his behalf, warning that worse horrors will greet his success. The only way Guthrie can survive is to find the sculpture and help the old man destroy the terrible power that lives within it. But before he can do that, he must endure a series of trials that test his physical endurance and drive him into the core of his own corruption.

Roadkill Some roadkill just won't stay down. Christopher Dow BUY NOW Price: $15.95 Format: Paperback Size: 6x9 Pages: 278 ISBN 10: 0-9796968-4-4 ISBN 13: 978-9796968-4-8 Five years after taking part in a disastrous raid to rescue a cruise liner from modern-day pirates, Alex Brant has begun to discover peace for himself driving an eighteen-wheeler across the American Southwest. He even finds time to protect a mysterious desert rat and the mute kid who travels with him. But he can't defend himself against a vicious band of road pirates and their brutal leader, T-Bone, who shoot him and leave him for dead at a roadside rest stop. T-Bone needs Alex's truckload of electronics to realize his mad scheme of revenge against the Las Vegas hoods who murdered his wife and son. Only one thing stands between him and incendiary hell he plans, and that's Alex, who discovers that T-Bone's gang has left him with more than one score to settle.

City of Dreams Christopher Dow BUY NOW Price: $15.95 Format: Trade Paper Pages: 117 ISBN: 978-0979696852 ISBN 13: 978-0-9796968-5-5 City of Dreams is the first collection of poetry from the editor and publisher of Phosphene and Dialog, the first independent literary magazines published in Houston, Texas. The poems range from examinations of the stultifying consequences of conformity to attempts to penetrate the veil of reality to discover hidden meaning that might help us make sense of an often senseless world.