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The novel begins as a detective road trip in search of Martin Koman, a writer who has disappeared, and then turns to life in a typical Californian hippie commune led by the preacher Skip Lenski, where Koman both finds and forgets himself. The story then takes a sharp turn into the supernatural, bringing in the demon Abaddon straight from the upper circles of hell and becoming a battle between good and evil for the souls of the commune's members. Desert landscapes, abandoned Indian settlements and roadside stores on the edge of nowhere frame the decline of the hippie utopia at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, with the songs on the radio playing the part of a chorus.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

365 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, early 1970s

First published

2020 by Dereta

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9788664573139 (original)