Welcome to to Odyssey and Quest! ADVENTURE - (n) any undertaking that requires risk. ODYSSEY - (n) an adventure or quest that takes a long time and great effort. Also a journey to the limits of one's intellect and to the depths of one's soul. QUEST - (n) the act of setting out to find something one desires or a journey taken to seek something of great value.

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Raven Wolf $14.95 ($24.95 retail) AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY. Burned out with law, Jonas Lundberg sets out to find a simpler life. He buys an abandoned homestead in New Mexico, planning to stretch his savings until he can support himself as a writer. What he doesn't plan is falling in love, not only with the land itself and the chicanos who live there, but with his neighbor's niece. When she breaks their engagement, he is shattered. To make ends meet, Jonas signs on with a small newspaper. This interim job turns into a career that leads him from the Detroit race riots to the Six Day War, and writing under the byline of Jonas Blake, he wins a Pulitzer. The celebration ends when he wakes in jail with no memory how he got there. It becomes painfully clear he must find a different way to live or he will surely die. By Joel B. Reed First Published as The Journal of Martin Quinn

Lakota Spring $9.95 ($12.50 retail) AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY. April 1, 1973. It is a good day for dying. That's what the elder told us at the barricade in Pine Ridge. I don't know. He is old, at least forty. His children have children. He has lived his life. What is left for him? Mine is just beginning. I have not fathered a child. Or was the elder teasing? Was he trying to scare us? April Fools! Yet I helped one of the men there load his rifle. I handed him the bullets. I know what they can do. I used a bullet like it when I shot my first deer. It tore his insides apart. So this is no joke. It would do the same to me. It would tear my guts apart. Is this a good way to die? By Joel B. Reed.   Abbas Barabbas $9.96 ($14.95 retail) A SEXUAL HISTORY. Where is the line between sanity and mental chaos? Andrew Barrabbas hears voices. Are they figments of his imagination, or the voices angels? Or are they his personal demons? And the mystic visions he has, are they messages from God or evidence of psychosis? Or is the answer simpler? Are these things due to his alcoholism? Andy Barrabbas doesn’t know. To find out, he takes a remarkable journey into his past to discover what is tearing him apart. On the brink of suicide, he admits himself to a mental hospital. There he is put through detox, and once his mental fog begins to clear, he is asked to write his personal history. The doctor in charge quickly realizes Andy is suffering from more than simple alcoholsim. He shows all the symptoms of a combat veteran. The diagnosis is PTSD and the doctor suspects the traumatic stress is from childhood abuse. So he asks Barabbas to write a sexual history. Yet the doctor is unprepared for the results. Andy ’s search becomes a spiritual quest and a psychological odyssey, and the good doctor is faced with an unsettling question. Who is the healer and who is in need of healing? By Samuel S. Abinitio.

Abbot's Gold $9.96 ($14.95 retail) AN AMERICAN ADVENTURE. Was it greed that killed them all, or was it the power of an ancient curse? Jack Bear doesn’t know. Nor does he care. Falsely accused and on the run, he heads west. All he wants is to be left alone to live in peace. Fate intervenes in the form of a salty soul named McAdams who saves Jack’s life. Then fate intervenes again through an act of kindness to a dying priest. The padre tells him of an ancient treasure hidden in the mountains. Yet the treasure is cursed and anyone who tries to keep it for himself will die. Jack Bear discovers the bitter truth of this when he finds himself an unwilling angel of death to the men who tortured the priest and stole the treasure map. When fate puts the map into his hands, Jack is tempted to burn it. Yet he does not, and even though he recovers the gold for its rightful owner, Jack finds he must pay a terrible price. Set in the Southwest of 1846, just before the Mexican War, Abbot’s Gold is an American odyssey of heroic proportion. By Joe Pete Blackwolf