New Novel: No Such Zone

I've just published my 3rd novel in the last year and a half. They are variations on a theme, I suppose. Here's the blurb:

A man overhears a conversation in an emptied office building, a conversation among the elites at the Company. It is a conversation filled with greed and malignant subterfuge. It becomes apparent to one of the conspirators that the man has heard them. He sets out to make what he’s heard known, and they set out to keep him quiet. What follows is a murderous cat and mouse game moving back and forth from the valley to ever higher in the mountains, and an emergent love.

Here's where you can find it:
https://www.lulu.com/shop/doug-downie/no-such-zone/paperback/product-yvrr5kd.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Here's the cover:

 

Demise of a Despot

 

Our despot must expire

it could happen any number of ways

 

in the way of Caesar, and the 20 Senators

in the way of Verwoerd, in the halls of government

in the way of Gaddafi, in a hole in the ground

in the way of Adolf, in an underground bunker

in the way of Heydrich, in a roadside car

in the way of Oswald, in front of cameras

in the way of the Czar, against a wall

in the way of Shinzo Abe, on a podium

in the way of Mussolini, left to hang like a polyp

in the way of Louis the King, absent his head

in the way of Juvénal Habyarimana, pricked from the sky

in the way of any of these ways, or one of the many other ways that are possible

 

Our despot must expire

rotten fruit must fall

but the harvest is best when the fruit is ripe

Message

 

I wonder if I wrote a note to the White House

something I do on occasion

and I said to Trump

though I know it’s only the interns

who may or may not be rabid

 

eat

shit

and die

 

Would even that snide but harmless statement

bring the Storm Troopers down upon me?

It just might

the cruelest pettiness is the order of the day

 

eat

shit

and die

 

motherfucker

 

it has a nice ring to it