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Sort of.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Fresh from a five-year resident scholar program at the Esalen Institute, Gordon (\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCrash\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e to his friends) arrives in the sleepy seaside town of Cambria, California, to deliver a lecture titled \"Galactic Loosh Farming and Reaganomics: How Much Longer Before the Fabric of Reality is Ripped to Shreds?\" It's the start of a bizarre chain of events that will launch Gordon's career as an investigative journalist and entangle him with a cast of characters that includes: \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames Marrsden\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, a gleefully foul-mouthed radio DJ and Gordon's untrustworthy childhood best friend; \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKayleigh Fuller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, a stoner witch who happens to be the niece of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuckminster Fuller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e;\u003cem\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSkeeze Lester Huntley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, a porn-addicted surfer whose alien abduction inspired him to become the Dope King of Central California; \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRina Rowley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, a lovely young actress with a shockingly ugly past; and looming largest of all, James' morbidly obese and obscenely wealthy \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUncle Lloyd\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, \"super secret black-ops bagman for the medico-military-occult complex... and matchmaker.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Determined to uncover the truth behind Lloyd's lurid tales of psychic killers and a mind control program known as \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProject MONARCH\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, Gordon chases down leads from Cambria to Amsterdam's red-light district and the Brussels headquarters of an alien-inspired sex cult calling itself \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe O  D Institute\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e--getting a profound education in the machinations behind the 20th century's greatest unexplained mysteries along the way. Seeking the final piece to the puzzle, Gordon returns to his roots in the isolated, faux-Swedish town of Kingsburg, where those mysteries began. What he finds there will send him hurtling toward a climactic showdown against a naked assassin dead set on turning the Cold War into a hot mess.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCrash Gordon and the Revelations from Big Sur\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is the big, shaggy conspiracy novel that everyone has always wanted to read--without actually knowing it. 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