David Knaack

A man obsessed with synchronicity falls victim to himself . . .

 

Denny surreptitiously stages faux 'synchronicities' until he discovers he can will actual synchronicites into existence. After seeing something terrifying in his personal photograph collection, he makes a call for help with unexpected consequences.

 

"I'm thinking, why is this happening? Then a wave of calm settles in"—his voice dropped to a whisper—"and I say to myself: 'Denny, why this is happening and where it comes from isn't important. The point is, it happened, and you can't just write it off as a meaningless coincidence. Three in a row, this quick, you've got to pay attention. A message is coming in and you need to respond.' So, right there in my car, at a stop sign in Sudbury, Massachusetts, I started the Church of the Van, where we feast on the sacrament of Holy Synchronicity."

 

 

 

"There are echoes of Umberto Eco's 'Foucault's Pendulum' in here,

as the author confronts traditional thinking concerning historical matters such as the practice of magic, the nature of literature, religious history and the contemporary problem of disaster capitalism."

 

John Aubrey, laid off, floundering in his marriage, and implicated in a murder, is writing a novel connecting the well-publicized 1980's Mormon pipe-bomb murders to modern-day Mormon witchcraft. Scientist Peter Lindeman has witnessed a midnight ceremony he believes may be connected to an impending environmental catastrophe, for which there appears to be no rational solution. Brought together by Aubrey's literary intentions, the two men set off to search for help from practicing occultists. Their quest takes them to Salt Lake City, Harmony, Pennsylvania, and Palmyra, New York. Armed with evidence of a cache of lost documents found in the papers of 1980's novelist John C. Gardner, they hatch a plan to harness magic and avert the catastrophe. The writing of Enoch's Thread is part of that plan …

 

Review: Rainhand Books

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While conducting research for his next novel, John Aubrey discovers a hidden document--a sort of Rosetta Stone for the world's mythology--that may be the key to curing an illness that has mysteriously appeared on a Swedish island. Enlisted by the secretive Premise Group to help understand the nature of the illness, Aubrey searches for clues in archeological, and religious sites, from Sweden, to Gobekli Tepe, uncovering an age-old struggle between mythological beings: A struggle with the potential to destroy all of humanity, and which must be met on American shores.