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The Mushroom Man
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ISBN13: 9798436732008
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 17 2011
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 17 2011
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Gerald Pembroke owns and runs a mushroom farm in the idyllic country setting of Luddensley village. The supermarket buyers are forcing his prices down to subsistence levels, his attention obsessed wife has been engaged in a string of affairs with younger men, and to top it all he discovers that one of his employees is using his facilities to grow hallucinogenic Liberty Cap mushrooms as a sideline.
After further pressure from his buyers and mounting maintenance bills, Gerald temporarily turns the entire facility over to the production of Liberty Caps in the hope of finally making some serious money.
Unfortunately the local drug dealers, now bereft of their clientele, don't quite see it Gerald's way. And where the drug dealers go, the police are never far behind. After a visit from the local constabulary, and in a fit of drunken panic, Gerald disposes of his entire crop down the old farm well, inadvertently contaminating the water supply to the local spring water bottling plant, and the entire village population soon discovers the harsh delights of drug induced paranoia.
In The Mushroom Man John Vault assembles another array of delightfully dysfunctional characters, and plunges them way out of their depth into nightmare situations. There's comedy, tragedy, villainy, at least three buckets of blood, and a huge body count. Who could want more?
Unfortunately the local drug dealers, now bereft of their clientele, don't quite see it Gerald's way. And where the drug dealers go, the police are never far behind. After a visit from the local constabulary, and in a fit of drunken panic, Gerald disposes of his entire crop down the old farm well, inadvertently contaminating the water supply to the local spring water bottling plant, and the entire village population soon discovers the harsh delights of drug induced paranoia.
In The Mushroom Man John Vault assembles another array of delightfully dysfunctional characters, and plunges them way out of their depth into nightmare situations. There's comedy, tragedy, villainy, at least three buckets of blood, and a huge body count. Who could want more?
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