Noir Novella Guaranteed to Top Pulp Fiction Charts

James Cage's Back From the Bardo is a gritty, in-your-face, three-part novella following the drug-running, risk-taking life of one gutsy American.

Belmar, NJ (PRWEB) December 2, 2006 -- James Cage's Back From the Bardo is a gritty, in-your-face, three-part novella following the drug-running, risk-taking life of one gutsy American.

Any reader hoping to find a hard-hitting, no-hold-barred story about one simple man's far-from-simple life need look no further. In James Cage's Back From the Bardo, the very best of noir-driven pulp fiction can be found.

Divided into three distinct stories, this novella focuses on more than three decades of one man's unexpected foray into a life fraught with danger. In the opening story, Holding the Bricks, the protagonist, Jaime, an American studying in Guadalajara, finds himself saddled with two kilos of high-quality cocaine. Their owner, a sophisticated, drug, dealing American medical student, entrusts the blow to the Jaime, who succumbs to the anxiety of possessing the drugs and transports it back to the States. What happens next is as shocking as it is unexpected. And it makes the reader beg for more.

In the other stories, with Jaime continuing as the main character, James Cage continues to deliver the goods. Astral Andy and the Funny Bear is an intricate and consistently fascinating look into our protagonist's life on the run. Germ Spreaders on a Train draws us into Jaime's mid-life, when international conspiracies butt up against technological sleight of hand, and where Jaime rubs elbows with shady characters for the very last time.

James Cage knows how to create dangerous, power-driven, yet somehow likeable people who urge his stories forward at the speed of sound. In the case of Back From the Bardo, it's a ride no reader should miss.

For more information or to request a free review copy, please contact the author at jamescage@jamescage.net or through the author's websites: www.jamescage.net and www.myspace.com/cagejames. Back From the Bardo is available for sale online at Amazon.com, Borders.com, and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.

About the Author
James Cage is a writer, statistician and researcher who has lived and worked in Mexico, New York, Los Angeles, Rome, and many locales in between. He holds an MS from Rutgers and has been writing fiction and non-fiction for more than three decades.

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