AVAILABLE JAN. 7, 2026
“This has the feel of a great (American) novel, representing our country before the collapse.” JACOB APPELBAUM, INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST & HACKER
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DEADBEAT ESCAPEMENT
by John Ledbetter | ISBN: 979-8-90213-340-7
V.I.R.U.S. agents VAL SIOUXX and LEVIS COAK are desperate to develop a narrative that will keep their clandestine organization in lock-step with the American zeitgeist. In 1964, the spooks track down hermetic newbie novelist, THOMAS RUGGLES PYNCHON, to his MEXICO footlocker hideout to coerce him into writing a burn-book about VITO PAULEKAS, the Cold War-era F.B.I. asset-gone-rogue-turned-artist who has raised and radicalized a loyal troupe of dancing FREAKS in his HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, basement studio.
So, like, what gives, man?
Will PYNCHON accept the federal freelance gig?
Will the paranoid pothead unearth the plot points connecting the FREAK KING to TINSEL TOWN, THEOSOPHY, and the BLACK DAHLIA/MANSON FAMILY/ZODIAC KILLER psyops?
S P E C S
EXPERIMENTAL FICTION/SATIRE
424 pages
6X9 paperback
0% A.I.
No trigger warnings
Published by VIKON VILLAGE
Printed in the U.S. of A.
A B O U T T H E A U T H O R
John Ledbetter is an American writer.
F O R M A T S
1st ed. paperback | ISBN: 979-8-90213-340-7 | $27
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1st ed. eBook | $7
C O N T A C T
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