Laughing Buddha Bloddy Buddha

Set in the homeless and 'startup' gentrification wars of contemporary San Francisco, serial killer Ben X, the son of a 60's damaged father and an unknown mother, sets out to slay the civil service employees of the city. He has vowed revenge for the loss of his family home. Ben covers his tracks with what he calls Buddhist bromide, New Age clichés, that lull the unsuspecting into catastrophe. In a manic first person narrative, this monster's violence is complicated by his sexual...
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Set in the homeless and 'startup' gentrification wars of contemporary San Francisco, serial killer Ben X, the son of a 60's damaged father and an unknown mother, sets out to slay the civil service employees of the city. He has vowed revenge for the loss of his family home. Ben covers his tracks with what he calls Buddhist bromide, New Age clichés, that lull the unsuspecting into catastrophe. In a manic first person narrative, this monster's violence is complicated by his sexual masochism, family protectiveness, and a flare for the cutting insight.As he progresses in the killings, he finds he has a psychotic ability to read other's thoughts giving him even further motivation and rage. His family expands from his brain damaged aphorism-saying father to a young refugee whose mother was captured by Federal authorities. Living in a homeless settlement, other figures appear-- Marie, a kept woman sadist, a chain saw killer of the homeless, and his ultimate target, the mayor of San Francisco. In this white knuckle quest for revenge, Ben X's surprising family roots are revealed.Echoing the shockers of Jim Harrison's The Killer Inside Me, The Silence of the Lambs, and The Girl with the Golden Tattoo, Laughing Buddha Bloody Buddha! is both a contemporary violent noir and a twisted psychological thriller.