Nowhere Man

By Jordan Riley

"Nowhere Man is a must read for all Beatles fans."

A young woman is stripped of her clothes and thrown into a dark, dank room and held hostage with two mysterious men - one of whom shares stories of his days with The Beatles and reveals the U.S. government's conspiracy to assassinate his friend John Lennon on December 8th, 1980.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Campfire Publishing
• Release date: Jun 25, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465771940

Jordan Riley

Jordan Riley writes dark, nihilistic, fiction from an idyllic home in the woods of Vienna.

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Nowhere Man

Jordan Riley

Copyright 2010 Jordan Riley

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This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are the product of the authors' imaginations and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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For John Lennon and his family, friends, and fans.

For anyone, anywhere who has been falsely persecuted, or arrested, or abducted, taken hostage, and held against their will.

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Author's note:

The following manuscript contains information from actual theories, police reports, medical, and legal documents concerning the assassination of John Winton Ono Lennon on December 8, 1980.

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A twenty-seven year old man is seated in the corner of a dark room talking to the one other person in there with him. Both men appear to be pale, weak, tired, unshaven, unclean, and hungry. They appear to be hostages, held against their will.

Robert is talking aloud, Throughout History people have always been the same. Only their clothes have changed. I am not the only one who knows this. Everyone does. Pause. Read any random Greek play or any Novel or biography or memoir from hundreds or thousands of years ago or watch movies from the 1920s or 1930s or any other year. Hell, I won't even get into talking about slavery, genocide, wars, religion, the holocaust. Pause. Anyone can just think about their present or past girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands, wives, parents, children, neighbors, co-workers, boss, dog catcher, store clerk, or even look in the mirror.

Pause. Sure, there have been nice people throughout history. But the world has always been filled with people who are vile, corrupt, self-serving, evil, dastardly, uncaring, ungrateful, abusive, scary, lazy, inactive, jealous, envious, murderous, liars, filled with rage, carnivorous, and on the prowl. Pause. And some people think god created us. What kind of god would this be? Is this the kind of god people pray to for help? Is this the god that needs all the money the church is always asking for? Pause. I have seen some of the worst humanity has to offer. I have dealt with the same type of people who would murder and enslave. So has everyone. We have no choice. They are everywhere around us. And that is why given a choice between being a human or a dolphin, anyone with half a brain should easily choose living in the sea. Man is a disgusting life form. The earth and all its creatures would be better of with us. Yes, I'd rather be a dolphin. At least dolphins don't try to destroy one another.

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A heavy door swings open. Bright light enters the room. We see the silhouette of a naked woman with shackles on her feet and a chain tying her hands together as she is thrown into the room. The door slams behind her. Her name is Brooke. She is twenty-four years of age, thin but healthy and pretty, with Mediterranean facial features and skin tones, with long brown hair and dark eyes. She quickly approaches the door and begins pounding on it with her fists and screaming to be let out. After a short while she breaks down and collapses to the floor. She is totally freaked out; not knowing what in the world is going on. The man on the other side of the room that Robert was talking to clears his throat. It is so dark the girl can't see him.

They'll never let you out of here, Drew says from the darkness.

The girl totally freaks out and starts kicking in every direction until she hits her intended target. Drew is so weak from malnutrition that he can barely protect himself. She finally gives up and walks away.

Who are you? What do you want from me?

A candle is lit across the warehouse. We see the silhouette of Drew, a naked forty-five year old man, wrapped in