SAINT THE TERRIFYING

In the first installment of Joshua Mohr's Viking Punk saga, a West Oakland musician acquires a new name and new calling. Chasing down a gang of thieves, Saint the Terrifying turns a gritty urban detective story into the stuff of legend.

Saint's an ex-con still coming to terms with his origin story. Raised in the wilds of Norway by an artisan father famed for his glass-blown birds, Saint trained daily in ancient Norse martial arts with a bear as his sparring partner. One day, his father makes a critical mistake, forcing Saint to leave his home forever, and move to San Francisco. Years later and fresh out of prison, Saint finds himself immersed in the Oakland punk music scene. On stage, he's struggling to find his identity as a guitar player in a mediocre band. Off stage, his unique skill-set (not to mention superhero-like strength) makes him useful to Oakland's DIY warehouse community who are on the hunt for the sinister criminals responsible for a serial theft of local band equipment. But it is only when Saint meets Trick Wilma, the powerhouse lead singer of another (better) band, that he begins to see the glimmer of salvation in her eyes. Propelled by a broken Baroque of punk language, SAINT THE TERRIFYING examines tensions between community and individual identity, social activism and vigilantism, while taking the reader on a roller coaster ride of hard-boiled twists and hardcore music. Saint is the badass protagonist that answers the question: What if Johnny Rotten had a baby with Jack Reacher? Joshua Mohr is the author of eight books, including Damascus, which The New York Times called "Beat-poet cool." He's also written Some Things that Meant the World to Me, one of O Magazine's 10 Terrific reads, and All This Life, winner of the Northern California Book Award. Termite Parade was an editors' choice on the New York Times Best Seller List. In his Hollywood life, he's sold projects to AMC, ITV, and Amblin Entertainment. He currently lives in Seattle, WA.