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Disturbingly Normal is the story of Jonathan Normal, a moody, sensitive guy who picks up dead bodies for an Oakland, California, mortuary. One day, for reasons he doesn’t understand, he “slips into a blur” while working. When he returns to his senses, he finds himself on the side of an isolated road with a receipt for an aluminum baseball bat in his pocket and a bludgeoned corpse at his side. Fired by the mortuary, Jonathan sets off on a prophetic journey of uncommon insight—slowly unfolding the dark reasons behind his uncharacteristically brutal act.
Suicide is a quintessentially individual act, yet one with unexpectedly broad social implications. Though seen today as a private phenomenon, in the uncertain aftermath of the American Revolution this personal act seemed to many to be a public threat that held no less than the fate of the fledgling Republic in its grip. Salacious novelists and eager newspapermen broadcast images of a young nation rapidly destroying itself. Parents, physicians, ministers, and magistrates debated the meaning of self-destruction and whether it could (or should) be prevented. Jailers and justice officials rushed to thwart condemned prisoners who made halters from bedsheets, while abolitionists used slave suicide...
Hacket, ex-UK Secret Intelligence Services (SIS), is in London waiting for a private kill assignment to proceed. His old boss, Charles Grimshaw sidelines Hacket as an SIS 'retread' to infiltrate the Gorgih German organised crime operation intent on acquiring personal identity and biometric data for black market resale. The Berlin based Gorgih family, headed by Michealov Gorgih, recruits Deborah Peers to establish a computer hacker operation in the back streets of Richmond, London. Michealov's brother Romanov and stepsister Saranda support the decision. However, each have their own agenda to profit from the stealing of encryption and biometric data from the UK based and financially struggling...
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