Guru Deep Is Dead, Long Live Guru Deep: A Rucksack Universe Story: Rucksack Universe

By Anthony St. Clair

Not all that gleams is light.

 

"Guru Deep and I met in the receiving room at the penthouse of his hotel in London, four days after his father's murder.

 

"The death of Deep Inc. CEO Guru Deep has left the business world reeling. Within hours of the discovery of the bloody scene at a Kyoto, Japan, subway station by local police, word spread not only around the world but also into the sky, where the disemboweled corporate genius's twenty-five-year-old son was flying by private plane from Sydney to Kyoto. Famously kept out of the limelight throughout his childhood and young adulthood, the son has been a media mystery.

 

"Today, though, we bring you his first public interview."

 

BS Trotter, the world's greatest journalist, knows more than anyone that people avoid telling the truth. That never stops him from asking hard questions. In fact, it's why he asks them… even when interviewing a grieving son with secrets to hide.

 

After all, not all that gleams is light. But if anyone can dig the truth out of the shadows, it's BS Trotter.

 

"Guru Deep Is Dead, Long Live Guru Deep" brings home the news of the day with a fascinating peek into the intricate Rucksack Universe.

 

The Rucksack Universe series combines alternate history, speculative fiction, myth, adventure, globetrotting, and intrigue—all with well-poured pints of beer. Library Journal says Anthony St. Clair's storytelling has "universe building reminiscent of Terry Pratchett," and readers say they love the Rucksack Universe's unique combination of "quirk, wit, travel, and magic."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rucksack Press
• Release date: Feb 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781940119588

Anthony St. Clair

Anthony St. Clair creates compelling fiction and non-fiction for a curious world full of everyday discoveries, endeavors, and surprises. He is the author of the ongoing Rucksack Universe series; covers craft beer, food, business, and more for various publications; and is a copywriter and content manager for select clients. When not at his desk or in his kitchen in Oregon, Anthony is on an adventure with his wife, son, and daughter.

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Guru Deep Is Dead, Long Live Guru Deep

Guru Deep Is Dead, Long Live Guru Deep

A Rucksack Universe Story

Anthony St. Clair

Rucksack Press

Contents

Guru Deep Is Dead, Long Live Guru Deep

Thank You for Reading

Become a Wanderer

Also by Anthony St. Clair

Acknowledgments

Sneak Peek

Special Features

About the Author

The Enemy has been a plague, a curse, an ever-looming threat in the shadows. He was my grandfather’s biggest grief. He was the death of my murdered father. And now, it is only a matter of time before the Enemy comes for me.

—Guru Deep, Travels Through the Third Eye

Guru Deep Is Dead, Long Live Guru Deep

Abridged interview originally published in London Rising, Apr. 1, 136 AB, Morning Edition. Reprinted from the original uncut, annotated draft, and published in the forthcoming collection of articles and essays, The Lost & Found Travels of BS Trotter.

By BS Trotter

Guru Deep and I met in the receiving room at the penthouse of his hotel in London, four days after his father’s murder. The death of Deep Inc. CEO Guru Deep has left the business world reeling. Within hours of the discovery of the bloody scene at a Kyoto, Japan, subway station by local police, word spread not only around the world but also into the sky, where the disemboweled corporate genius’s twenty-five-year-old son was flying by private plane from Sydney to Kyoto. Famously kept out of the limelight throughout his childhood and young adulthood, the son has been a media mystery.

Today, though, we bring you his first public interview.

Immediately laying aside his undisclosed childhood name to take up the world-famous family moniker, the newly corporately coronated Guru Deep went from leader-in-waiting to head of one of the world’s largest and most successful global companies (however, the privately held firm does not disclose its financials). Like his father and grandfather, the Guru Deeps before him, the new Guru Deep is determined that the company will grow and succeed. Unlike his predecessors, though, this Guru Deep comes to the name and the helm under a cloud of horrible and untimely death, with both a son’s grief and a leader’s determination that the business must go on.

When I arrived at Guru Deep’s London penthouse, we