Adrenalin Rocket: Run For Your Life, a Love Story — John Argo

Don't miss this story. You've never read a book quite like ADRENALIN ROCKET, a dark fantasy thriller. It's both a wild adventure on steroids across the landscape of Southern California as you never imagined it, and a youthful love story between Martin and Chloë, both 21 years old and ready for orbit. When the speedometer is stuck on “blur,” you won't be able to sleep or eat because you'll be so anxious to learn what happens next. When you recover from the amazing rush in one sitting (“can't stop reading!”), you'll love it and tell everyone that you can't wait for the movie to be made. It's like reading a summer movie in a novel. Even if it's snowing rail cars outside, you'll enjoy a beach read and sizzling rocket ride in your bedroom (maybe at moments under the bed even). Author assurance: a sequel is already in work. ADRENALIN ROCKET is a dark fantasy ride in to orbit. A guy meets girl romance all the way, it starts out with deceptive calm. You won't see the hammer coming when it slams down (for your own safety, try to be lying down as you read). The story instantly turns into a suspenseful, hair raising adventure of fantastic and enjoyably Psycho proportions designed to see how far our imagination can stretch before our brain melts like cheese on a pizza. It's like Homer's Odyssey on steroids, filmed by Alfred Hitchcock after three pots of morning coffee. Running nonstop for your life with Martin Brown, you'll meet alien taxi drivers in Noir L.A. and other unusual characters as fascinating as they may be terrifying. Martin Brown, 21, is a U.C. Berkeley Literature student, is home in San Diego as the novel starts. He's finished another year of college and is alone in life because he just broke up with his girlfriend. He's spending the summer with his parents and sister in laid-back San Diego. He's searching for a new summer gig after his job shoveling krappe at a tree farm fell through. He has his old surfer and surferette friends to cheer him on. Acting on a strong lead from a female friend, he drives two hours to Los Angeles to interview for a writing position with global media giant corporation YANAPOP (a marketing concept meaning Young Adult + New Adult + Participating Older Persons). YANAPOP, Inc. creates games, films, books, and other entertainment for young adults, new adults, and participating older persons around the world. In Los Angeles for his interview, Martin meets a gorgeous young production assistant named Chloë Setreal (also 21). Chloë guides him through his interviews and takes a special interest in the handsome young applicant. Martin and Chloë fall madly and instantly in love that same day. Martin returns to San Diego, two hours south, to await results. All he can think of is Chloë, yearning for any excuse to go back and see her as soon as possible. Chloë is thinking the same up in L.A. With some dark karma, their wish comes true. No sooner has Martin arrived back home, than he receives a call from Chloë in LA. She's been in a car accident, is stuck in her apartment with one leg up in a cast, and desperately longs for her dashing hero Martin to come hold her hand. Martin gallantly hops in his car and heads north, just as a tremendous Pacific Ocean storm begins to pelt San Diego. That's just the beginning of a hair-raising adventure, a nightmare of epic proportions. Courageous and undaunted Martin Brown strives to reach Los Angeles (Lost Alienopolis) at any cost. What should be a two-hour drive turns into a Homeric Odyssey lasting a seeming eternity… ADRENALIN ROCKET is a yarn for lovers of wild stories on a spectrum from Groundhog Day to National Lampoon's Vacation, from The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon to Martin Scorsese's dark comedy masterpiece After Hours with its all-star cast. Think of The Last Seduction (with Linda Fiorentino) or even way back when, Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis in The Out-Of-Towners film. ADRENALIN ROCKET is the next great thing.