An amusing page-turning tale of clashing cultures in today's America. This off-beat romp mixes its unlikely characters into a sardonic cocktail with a fresh twist. Jackson Puffi, professional underachiever, picks up Hudson, a hitchhiker with mysterious powers and their lives are changed forever. On a mission to transform their world, they move to Portland, Oregon to find homeless teens; a Rumi scholar/bike messenger/dungeon mistress; a sinuous monkey-boy; hillbillies; a predatory religious eccentric/venture capitalist; a vengeful mobster/ businessman who desperately needs a liver donation;...

Two friends venture into the greasy heart of the carny world in search of a magical bible to find an increasingly delusional preacher with the power to command his minions. This humorous and poignant tour takes us on a seamy search through the eccentric world of freaks and cons to find true family values.

THE LAGUNA SQUEEZE follows a rogue cop on a corrupt journey through the enfeebled sociopolitical underbelly of Eugene, Oregon. The story includes a "nano-savant" who can see molecular components and understand how they will behave, a crooked mayor, an environmental protest gone wrong, and a pharmaceutical think-tank that creates and markets new "diseases" for its failed products.

A well-meaning group of gifted friends, a wily investor, and a vain business mogul find humorous and bizarre challenges in the unique environment of Portland, Oregon, and the Northwest. Local self-help culture collides with the demeaning manipulations of local politics and business, when a homeless teen center begins to turn into a "stocking pen" for breeders at a Northwest polygamous cult. A manipulative, sleep-deprived tyrant attempts to change his ways through New Age therapy and seeks to immortalize himself by commissioning a self-aggrandizing opera. Don Inferno is Jug Brown's third book....