Deragon Hex: The Vipdile Key - Softcover

Martece, Carlie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0992871611 ISBN 13: 9780992871611

Publisher: Castle Mindscape, 2016

Synopsis

Deragon Hex: The Vipdile Key is the first book to integrate pi into its narrative while telling a fast-paced and darkly hilarious tale of survival and vengeance.

The three main characters are a gender-neutral vigilante killer, a dominatrix and a girl in a coma. The tale begins at the blood-drenched site of a mass murder then rewinds to play out the toxic events that brought the killer to this point. Ash must figure out which one of the four main villains in Leah’s life is responsible for her lying poisoned in a hospital bed and avenge her before it is too late. There is only one person they can turn to for help, the creepy Estana, who is probably evil and possibly not even human.

After leaving the ruined hotel suite in Blue Five Nine, the story careens through narcotised festivals, disastrous relationships, vulture trials, prison fights, televised violence and surreal dream sequences, with frequent social commentary from two voyeuristic alcoholics.

The six-sided setting is populated by mentally vacant consumers and insidious social climbers, but there’s also a helpful prison clerk, a mysterious night porter and a cat that drinks vodka. Can Leah be saved? Will anybody be pushed out of a level Plus Five window? Will Ash run out of hair gel? Which number is the trigger - a three digit figure that begins with five and is destined to cause a major explosion?

You'll find out if you follow the white badger.

About this title

About the Author

Carlie Martece is an artist and writer who resides in a dark but hilarious dreamworld. She wrote her first book, Toxic Nursery, as a creative response to people wanting to know the story behind her unusual artwork. Her second book, the dystopian, cyberpunk Deragon Hex, is her first work of science fiction. Both books are part of the Constructed Sanity Sequence, a trilogy of trilogies that will become increasingly entangled as their overall story progresses.

The writer is now living in a rather interesting sequel and continues to share her creations with the world via her website at www.carliemartece.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Castle Mindscape
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0992871611
• ISBN 13: 9780992871611
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314