Publisher's Synopsis
Defence attorney, Greg Brandenberg, is charged with defending three former members of the Hendrix Joplin Community who are accused of murdering their Pastor and six security staff. None of the three has any prior criminal record. Their only mistake was to sign over their lives to a church which they could join but never leave. This story explores the sexual exploitation that can occur when someone has absolute power over the lives of others. The cult-leader who will take your wife to become his concubine, just to prove to you that he can. Even though his charisma is as fake as the hair and whiskers which cover his face, A futuristic tale which also takes you back to the slave plantations of South Carolina and the 1967 Summer of Love. A story set in a post-climate-change Britain, which is now America's 53rd State.
Key characters in the story are Greg Brandenberg (the defence attorney); James O'Reilly (alias The Reverend T. Vincent; alias Shaggy; the founder and pastor of the Hendrix Joplin Community); Max Daniels (the husband); Mrs Beth Daniels (wife and concubine); Sister Nutbush (a church Elder who shot her way to freedom); and Shani (the robotic pseudo wife).