Publisher's Synopsis
ROUTE 666 THE NOVEL is a love story of mythic proportions, set on that wondrous coastal strip between San Diego and Los Angeles. It's a thrill ride for readers of all ages, from Young Adult (YA) on up. Warning: it starts out pretty calmly, but you'll know it soon enough when the hammer comes down and life gets crazier than we could ever imagine.Young U.C. Berkeley student Martin Brown (age 21) is home from the Bay Area for summer vacation in San Diego. He'll be staying with his parents and an annoying younger sister, and now his job plans have fallen through. So he travels to L.A. to interview for a summer interne writing job at a huge entertainment corporation that creates games, films, books, and other entertainment for Young Adults, New Adults, and Participating Older Persons around the globe (hence the acronym). In Los Angeles for his interview, Martin meets a gorgeous young production assistant named Chloë Setreal (also 21). Chloë guides him through his interviews and takes a special interest in the handsome young applicant. Martin and Chloë fall madly and instantly in love that same day.Martin returns to San Diego, two hours south, to await results. All he can think of is Chloë, wishing for any excuse to go back and see her as soon as possible. Chloë is thinking the same up in L.A. With a little bad karma, their wish comes true. No sooner has Martin arrived back home, than he receives a call from Chloë in LA. She has been in a car accident, is stuck in her apartment with one leg up in a cast, and desperately longs for her dashing hero Martin to come hold her hand.Martin gallantly hops in his car and heads north, just as a tremendous Pacific Ocean storm begins to pelt San Diego. That's only the beginning of a hair-raising adventure, a nightmare of epic proportions, as courageous and undaunted Martin Brown strives to make it to Los Angeles (or Lost Alienopolis) at any cost. What should be a two-hour drive turns into a Homeric Odyssey lasting a seeming eternity...Like most Rok Chilla works of high imagination (novels, stories), this one starts out deceptively calm. It's the calm before the cyclone. When the hammer comes down, you'll know it. Nothing will separate you from this novel, especially when the speedometer is stuck on "blur" and you won't be able to sleep or eat because you'll be so anxious to learn what happens next. That's how a real thriller should be.Route 666 The Novel is a bizarre, Saturnalian plunge into the underground - a wildly imaginative, streamlined doomsday machine that never stops for a second until the last desperate, manic breath. Martin becomes Odysseus in search of Chloë as he pursues the goddess of his dreams. He becomes Homer's Odysseus in pursuit of the nightmare secreted in the engine that drives Amerika - and the universe. Or whatever. It's totally donuts all the way. You'll love the most amazing romp you will ever read.Martin goes from a mild-mannered student or reporter to a comic book hero and an avenger in the mythological landscape of Southern California at its most ingenious extremes. Just when you think you have finally swum ashore, be prepared - the next merciless tide in this air-conditioned nightmare is already sweeping you back out to sea. Come join the fun. Read the adventure and fall in love with Martin and Chloë. It's a novel you will never forget.
