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Wicked King Dick
Wicked King Dick
Wicked King Dick
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Wicked King Dick

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Here's a nostalgia piece, my personal foray into Jean Shepherd Americana. WICKED KING DICK is the story of Johnny Wolfe, a kid from a small town in the American Midwest who goes away to college and falls hopelessly in love with Beth Trajan, a goddess from the Olympus known as the Northern Suburbs of Chicago. Beth cannot be won without a full-fledged commitment to her student radical activities, so Johnnymore Dobie Gillis than Che Guevarajoins the Movement on campus. His devotion to Beth gets Johnny expelled and into full-time bomb making. Deeply conflicted, he masquerades as a graduate student in the chemistry department and slips into the chem lab every night, pretending to make bombs while he tries to delay the inevitable confrontation with Beth and with his own conscience.The bombing of the ROTC building is intended to cause no more than property damage. When a man dies in the explosion, Johnny panics and goes on the run for thirty-three years. On the road he becomes an itinerant evangelist and hooks up with a carnival, which brings him back to his old home town and to Maggie, the girl he left behind. But will his past ever allow him to truly go home again?

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PublisherMalachi Stone
Release dateJan 28, 2023
ISBN9798215410981
Wicked King Dick
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Malachi Stone

Marlon Brando on Larry King Live quoted an unknown Louisiana woman who said, "Anybody who shows his face in public is an ass." (1) Mindful of those wise words, I created the pseudonym Malachi Stone to author my novels and short stories because, as a practicing attorney in a conservative community, my natural inclination was and still is to avoid notoriety and controversy wherever and whenever possible. That being said, my secret identity affords me a perverse Zorro-like gratification. I've been writing for more than twenty years. For a three-year period I was represented by a fine literary agent (2) in Manhattan, who tried valiantly but without success to place my novels in traditional publishing. Allegedly, objections were raised to negative protagonists and explicit sex. While I am convinced those objections are groundless, I am weary of arguing the point. I'll simply let you, the readers, decide for yourselves. I have garnered many good reviews over the years. See, for example, Elizabeth White (3). Interviews of me may be found on the web, for instance, Steve Weddle, Fiona "McDroll" Johnson, Paul D. Brazill and Ian Ayres (4-7). Please feel free to post reviews of my work, good, bad, or indifferent. Only be sure to remember that most of my books, especially the later ones, are self-published without the dubious benefit of copyediting, content editing or censorship of any kind. So if you post reviews carping about bad language or finding flaws in punctuation, paragraphing or font, I frankly don't care. I'm putting these books out there for the sole reason I wrote them in the first place - to be enjoyed by readers. As my law practice has become more active recently, I have taken a sabbatical from writing but hope to resume soon. My personal and private email is: theoriginalmalachistone@gmail.com. I'd be delighted to hear from you!1. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/02/lklw.00.html2. http://variety.com/exec/stacia-decker/3. http://www.elizabethawhite.com/tag/malachi-stone/4. http://www.spinetinglermag.com/2011/04/20/conversations-with-the-bookless-malachi-stone/5. http://imeanttoreadthat.blogspot.com/2012/01/american-banshee-by-malachi-stone.html#!/2012/01/american-banshee-by-malachi-stone.html6. https://pauldbrazill.com/2012/01/19/short-sharp-interview-malachi-stone/7. http://nigelpbird.blogspot.com/2010/09/dancing-with-myself-malachi-stone.html

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