Ron's Next Book

A Synopsis:

Meet Claire Charbonet, whose first love is a Brockmeier shot glass
over family objections,
living a tangled web of dirty diaries and Outback scandals
in a coming-of-age story of a stripper-actress
who travels to the court of the Mughal Empire
with three best friends, all college age,
married to FBI agents who are sent to Oregon
to battle anti-American protests;
a story inspired by the deep-sea fishermen of Adler.

Meanwhile, Ken’s grandmother is missing,
and found with a sex addict’s daughter in Sweden
hiding from a Zambian
who sets up a real estate empire
with former hit men of Italian gangsters
and Jewish comedians from the Borscht Belt.

Returning home, she takes a murder rap
from an Indian man smitten with a screen legend
taking a ten year hiatus in Renaissance France
to explore motherhood and marriage
with a fifteen year old farm hand in the middle of a custody battle.

A trip to Egypt uncovers a crime
by his politically powerful family
while a rebel working-class cousin
is betrayed by his first love- educated women
having youthful traumas and unraveling affairs
that set off deadly chains of events in their communities,
amid racial tension and multinational corporate intrigue.

Tentative titles are as follows:

“The World is Safe but Hijacked by Jonah” or
“The Five Secret Lives of Four Seattle Outdoorsmen” or
“Meyer Buffet Follows Her Imaginary Friend” or
“A Plague of Spies Swim the Mississippi River Delta” or
“Falling in Love in South Dakota” or
“Finding Solace in the Fate of Humanity” or
“Collecting Southern Men” or
“The Baptism of Jennifer O’Toole’s Uprising” or
“Seven Sins of Sorrow” or
“The Death of Leif in Los Angeles” or
“Six Kids and Ex-Captain John Kidnap the Secretary of State” or
“Bill Flees Texas”