Dirty Kids, Filthy Secrets
By John Luciew
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Meet America’s secret society of millennial migrants
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose...” These young, modern drifters have rejected all the bedrock tenets of American society, shunning aspirations of getting a job and having a home. These millennial migrants would rather be free. Their underground movement has grown into somewhat of a secret society that hides in plain sight as they travel the country on the cheap.
They are "Dirty Kids." It is a reference to both their disheveled appearance and the pungent body odor that most wear like a badge of honor.
This true story reveals the often-filthy secrets behind their make-shift society, taking you inside this counter-culture movement that is always on the move.
Despite their deep disillusionment, Dirty Kids talk of wanderlust and freedom, embracing the idealistic ethos of the open road, just like Woody Guthrie and Jack Kerouac before them.
But their hard life on the streets takes its toll. Many Dirty Kids don’t expect to live to see their mid-30s. They risk becoming a generation, lost. But not before enjoying the ride, crisscrossing the highways, backstreets and railways of America, on their own terms, and often, on their own two feet.
Taken together, their stories stand as a modern, millennial generation mash-up of hippie and hobo culture, an itinerants’ tale that is never anything less than engrossing.
Their itinerary is pure chance. Their destination, unknown. But the ride is free. And so, these Dirty Kids believe, are they...
*This e-book single contains 28,000 words.
John Luciew
BREAKING NEWS!! All five of my full-length mystery/thrillers are coming soon in unabridged audio form. ZERO TOLERANCE and KILL THE STORY are already out for 2013 from Audible.com. SECRETS OF THE DEAD is up for full sound-recording treatment next, followed by FATAL DEAD LINES and my newest mystery, LAST CASE. I hope you will check them out. Some serious voice talent has been brought to bear to turn my best ripped-from-the-headlines page-turners into a can't-stop-listening, white-knuckle audio mystery experiences. Now, a little more about me and my books: Journalist John Luciew is the author of numerous ripped-from-the-headlines fictional thrillers that mix politics, corporate power and pulse-pounding suspense, including: KILL THE STORY, ZERO TOLERANCE, SECRETS OF THE DEAD, FATAL DEAD LINES, CORPORATE CUNNING, and now, LAST CASE. His non-fiction titles include the true-crime account, SUSPECT/VICTIM, and the real-life medical thriller, "CATASTROPHIC." FROM THE AUTHOR: If Hollywood was ever going to make a movie of one of my books, KILL THE STORY would be the one. It has everything -- a high concept, a deepening mystery rooted in actual events and more off-beat but convincingly real characters than you can count. This is journalism as I saw it -- both from the outside looking in and the inside out. It says nearly everything I have to say about the state of media today -- all without slowing the non-stop action one little bit. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I loved writing it. Lenny Holcomb, my first literary character, spoke to me in much the same way the dead people of his obituaries speak to him. But after my first book, FATAL DEAD LINES, I found out Lenny and the dead people from his obits had more to say. Much more. SECRETS OF THE DEAD, a specially updated sequel, completes Lenny Holcomb's intriguing saga, finally presenting his incredible story in full. I hope you enjoy it, discovering the many narrative arcs that bridge both books and come to a full and satisfying resolution by the final page. ZERO TOLERANCE Is probably my most unique and unconventional book -- a thriller set in the cloaked, cloistered world of juvenile justice. Namely, a youth reform camp set in the outskirts of Pittsburgh, Pa. It also stands as my most researched novel to date. As a journalist, I spent years covering the Pennsylvania juvenile justice system at a time when the penalties and punishments for young offenders were being ratcheted up. All that authenticity is here -- along with a highly original plot that will have you guessing until the very last page. LAST CASE, my newest thriller, is set in 1978, just as acclaimed horror director George A. Romero is gearing up to shoot his zombie cult classic "Dawn of the Dead" in the Monroeville Mall, just outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I was a bit too young back in 1978 to offer my able body as one of Romero's delightfully desiccated corpses in "Dawn of the Dead." But I will never, ever forget watching the Monroeville Mall - a place where I shopped for school clothes and cruised for girls - turned into a splatter-filled shopping fest for the undead. I guess you could say it's haunted me all these years. --jcl, Feb./2013
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