Artifice of Flesh: Unnatural Perpetrator Department, #2

By Reed Alexander and John Baltisberger

The second book in the UPD Series.

Dianna has worked hard to integrate into the Unnatural Perpetrators Department, it isn't what she was expecting to do with her life when she joined the FBI, but chasing down supernatural serial killers was certainly interesting work.

Now a series of incredibly grisly killings has everyone on edge, and the team's supervisory agents Miranda and Ronny are no exception. Forced to bring in a consultant to deal with a killer that flenses its victims and then poses the skeletal remains to mirror classical art, the UPD must work fast or be shut down by their own internal struggles.

Written by John Baltisberger & Reed Alexander

• Language: English
• Publisher: Madness Heart Press
• Release date: Feb 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393369684

Reed Alexander

Reed Alexander is not a pen name used to protect the author from public scrutiny but actually to protect the public from the real weirdo behind the pen name. Getting to know Reed is the social equivalent of getting to know a rabid honey badger with megalomaniacal delusions. It really is better for the public at large to reduce him to a caricature estranged from his actual life. One might otherwise be worried why he’d be allowed to wander unattended without someone on hand ready to administer Thorazine. The focal points of Reed Alexander’s writing is almost always something that “causes him to froth at the mouth,” (in his own words). Whether it’s the politics of the day, uninformed public opinion, what he calls modern anti intellectualism, or pop culture run rampant. Reed always has some level of negative criticism which reduces the public at large to a pack of marauding troglodytes being ruled by used car salesmen. From the perspectives of Reed Alexander, the world is one marvelous catastrophe waiting to happen and this is what motivates him to write. The author attempts to see the world at large from the outside in abstract and uses that as the pinion of his stories. Thus, in essence, Reed Alexander hopes to leave his works behind him as a moral lesson; a sort of “I told you so.” He does this in the hopes that any survivors or intergalactic explorers can look upon his works and hopefully learn a thing or two at the great failed experiment called human society.

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