About This Book
American rock `n' roll excess, World War Two persecution and a vivid but brief European freedom struggle combine to dramatic effect in Stephen O. Boyo's fictional novel - The Marionette Adrift. The world is about to change for Lars Brunner and American super rock group the X-Cult. While the Cult's tour ends triumphantly at Rio's Maracana Stadium, Lars Brunner's life begins to spiral downwards. Uncomfortable with the demands that fame and fortune have brought his way, Brunner is soon charged for murdering his estranged wife, Annie. As the strings of fate snap, his life spins out of control. The rock star soon turns vagabond, as he is set adrift by circumstances beyond his control. From the Texan town of Corpus Christi, Lars journeys into a world so far removed from his native Milwaukee and the life he has known until then. This unknown world brings surprises around every corner he turns until the dreadful end... First in Las Palmas and then in Barcelona, Brunner falls into the arms of Renee De Haro - the beautiful, rich, mysterious and Basque and her friends. Unknown to him, Renee and her friends harbour dark terrifying secrets that unfold piece by piece, as Brunner journeys deeper and deeper into the Spanish heartland, to witness events occurring at the tail end of Spanish Dictator Generalissimo Franco's reign. Along the way, Brunner also discovers his own past - one that had hitherto been written off as dead and buried in his father's Holocaust memoir. Only the truth can bring Brunner back from his nightmare...
