Taylor Baptist
Published: 2014-12-05
Total Pages: 220
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We met the self-opinionated, tactless Jack Gardner before in the "e;Honey Do List"e;, a recent Evvy Award winner. Ten years have rolled by since then, and he has become totally paranoid about his health. His fruitless search for the Fountain of Youth has turned him into a full-blown hypochondriac, and he stumbles through life in a medication-induced haze. Ringing in the ears and brain fog are now constant companions, but his real troubles begin when he falls asleep. Vivid dreams take hold of his mind, and he assumes a dozen different identities as he gallivants across the US, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, leaving a trail of mayhem in his wake. In turn rent collector, British diplomat, car salesman, stockbroker, travel writer, water engineer and Catholic priest, Jack comes into contact with a host of zany characters, joins a religious sect, goes completely blind while traveling on the London Tube, discovers he has a sister no one knew anything about, and finds himself smack in the middle of a nasty scandal involving a Chicago basketball star and a protection racketeer. His efforts to umpire a cricket match set two Indian villages at each other's throats, and his first celebrity wedding as a rookie priest barely escapes nationally televised melt down. He visits a local drinking hole seeking converts for his sect, has his first taste of "e;Resurrection Soup"e;, and finally wakes up, half naked, in a homeless shelter. Tense tales of human drama, liberally sprinkled with oral and situation humor.