Jack Lee is completing an excessive and solitary 3 yr meditation retreat that begun almost immediately after his acquittal on smuggling fees. throughout the trial, he had obtained a lot undesirable consciousness, and turn into whatever of a star. Now retired from the ‘herb’ exchange, he re-enters the realm, and in brief order unearths love and starts to examine a brand new lifestyles. Then his ally and previous associate within the alternate is murdered in bad style, an occasion that shakes him to his center and relegates his newly made plans to secondary prestige. he's pushed to determine who killed his buddy, and this leads him again right into a international he had vowed to place at the back of him. And from his first backward step into this global the earth threatens to open underneath his toes and swallow him complete. the nature of Jack Lee is published to the reader via his activities, instead of via inside monologues, or biographical recitation. furthermore, via those self same activities, Jack Lee is published to himself in startling fashion.

The writer: Henry Joseph wrote six picaresque novels (pi.ca.resque—adj: in terms of the adventures of rogues) among 1992 and 1999. the 1st, Bloodwork: the recent Rugged pass, was once released in not easy disguise within the U.S.A. and used to be widely acclaimed by way of critics and fellow writers alike.

“. . . the main strong first novel I’ve learn in years. It’s wonderful,” acknowledged James Crumley, writer of The Mexican Tree Duck and Border Snakes, to whom Henry has been favorably in comparison.

“. . . sheer storytelling brio,” declared Frank Wilson within the manhattan occasions booklet assessment. “… riveting …compelling… foreshadows a protracted, profitable career,” stated Bruce Southworth within the Drood evaluation of Mystery.

In France, Cedric Fabre, in L’Humanite acknowledged of Dinosaur Heaven, the second one publication within the sequence, “startling and luxurious, past jubilation: we input part of ourselves we have been ignorant of: Joseph is a good smuggler of tears.”

Yet, during the weirdness of recent publishing, Bloodwork used to be the single e-book of Henry Joseph’s to be released in English. His subsequent 5 novels have been all released (like the 1st) in France, with very good severe overview, yet no longer in English. This unusual aberration is now to be corrected, with e-book by way of Astor + Blue variants of the entire Dinosaur Heaven Quintet sequence in English.

In 2001, Henry Joseph determined to retire from worldly affairs, together with writing, focusing in its place on a religious lifetime of yoga and Buddhism. yet now, at the least, his acid, relocating, and witty storytelling will be loved extra extensively than earlier than. they're precise web page turners – a global of outlaws, wherein is intended someone who toys with the concept they're an outlaw. There will not be as many round as there might be, yet might be studying Henry’s novels will switch all that . . .

[Taken, with apologies, from the creation to every paintings written through Peter Rubie, CEO, FinePrint Literary Management.]