Abrupt Edge

by Angus Brownfield

Overview

Jacob Gleason, restless youth seeking his destiny, is a moral blank slate when he stumbles upon Abrupt Edge, a Nevada wilderness Shangri La. It’s centerpiece is Carne Viva, a brothel for billionaires seeking sexual enlightenment. Edge Enterprise’s CEO, Isaac Wayman, offers him a job chronicling an incipient war with Glory, a fundamentalist Mormon settlement run by his brother and nemesis, Abraham. The war will only happen if Isaac precipitates it—and he’s nuts enough to do just that.
Jacob sticks around when he falls in love with Gloria Bennett, Isaac’s personal secretary, and in lust with Asenath Wayman, Isaac’s cousin and true love, also la directora of Carne Viva. He must find his moral compass while trying to prevent the Glory War. On the way he debates with Justin DeFord, Abrupt Edge’s least likely client, the relative morality of multiple couplings with strangers versus the plural marriages of the polygamists over the hill.
Add a temptress, Fay Marraine, who tries to steer Jacob away from Abrupt Edge, and Auntie Amity,an unlikely desert rat who rescues Justin from his scruples and introduces him to the true Zen of sex, and you have The Magic Mountain set in a desert instead of an Alpine sanatorium.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011423956
Publisher:	Angus Brownfield
Publication date:	07/18/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	456 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Write what you know. I know me and I'm talking to you, reader, in the first person, not the anonymous third person, because when I write I write about me and the world that thrives around me.
I wrote decent poetry in college, I couldn’t get the hang of short stories. I finished my first novel so many years ago writers were still sending their works to publishers instead of agents. My first novel was rejected by everyone I sent it to. The most useful rejection, by a Miss Kelly at Little, Brown, said something like this: “You write beautifully, but you don’t know how to tell a story.” Since then I've concentrated on learning to tell a good story. The writing isn’t quite so beautiful but it will do.
Life intervened. Like the typical Berkeley graduate, I went through five careers and three marriages. Since the last I've been writing like there’s no tomorrow. I have turned out twelve novels, a smattering of short stories and a little poetry. My latest novel is the third in a series about a man who is not my alter ego, he’s pure fiction, but everyone he interacts with, including the women, are me. My title for this trilogy is The Libertine.
Writers who have influenced me include Thomas Mann, Elmore Leonard, Albert Camus, Graham Greene, Kurt Vonnegut and Willa Cather. I don’t write like any of them, but I wish I did.
I'm currently gearing up to pay attention to marketing. Archery isn’t complete if there’s no target. I've neglected readers because I've been compulsive about putting words down on paper.
Today the balance shifts.