Publisher's Synopsis
Recently released mental patient John Doe cannot remember the first fifteen years of his life, his parents, his family, how he acquired his incredible quickness or his ability to kill. After a violent incident puts him into a catatonic stupor, John is awakened and finds himself in Fort Mckenzie, a drug-infused cesspit of humanity, high up in the wastelands of northern Alberta. As he tries to scourge the madness from his bones, John enters into a waking nightmare of drugs, kidnapping and corruption, all the while gaining clues to his forgotten past, unraveling the secrets of Fort Mckenzie and its mysterious patriarch Don Swan, gaining the friendship of an Indian Shaman and taking the first steps on a path to divinity. Dark, aggressive and unrelenting, Black Orchid is an imaginative spectacle, infusing take-no-prisoners storytelling, film noir surrealism, and graphic lyricism, pushing readers into the depths of one man's insanity and pulling them, kicking and screaming, back out again.
