Rachael L. McIntosh remains one of the few authors who can combine expert fiction writing with an insider’s understanding of the geopolitical world that is today ensnarling us. The Peanut Butter Pipeline, the fourth of her Security Through Absurdity novels, takes us into the real world of sinister intel services and technocracy, everything from 9/11 and globalism to nanobots and high-tech weaponry. Yet there is no shortage of the action and villains that underpin any great thriller. As usual, Rachael’s writing transports the reader right into the story through her compelling use of vivid imagery. And as with her previous novels, I’d love to see this one made into a movie!
Little Yellow Stickies
Security Through Absurdity Book One
Jocelyn McLaren is a beautiful, hard working, yet naive visual artist who, through a twist of fate, ends up working for a major US defense contractor during the lead up to the Iraq war. She unknowingly witnesses and unwittingly participates in crimes that haunt her and are ultimately interlinked with the most nefarious psychopaths on Earth.
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Bubbles Will Pop
Security Through Absurdity Book Two
Jocelyn McLaren, a former defense contractor, is now a new mother to twins! As she struggles to maintain what she imagines to be a normal family during the economic turmoil of the US housing collapse, she becomes involved in a political campaign and encounters troubling remnants of her life working for the military-industrial complex. These interactions haunt her, as well as the father of her children.
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The Big Show
Security Through Absurdity Book Three
“The Big Show,” chronicles Jocelyn McLaren’s involvement with a presidential election. As her history of working for a US defense conglomerate collides with global finance and murder her future becomes increasingly unstable. Will she survive? BASED ON A TRUE STORY “Tell me. What would happen if the general public stopped believing that it was their votes that had wrought such misfortune? If they did not believe they could vote the problem away? Where would they turn their ire if they weren’t blaming each other?”
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The Peanut Butter Pipeline
Security Through Absurdity Book Four
Jocelyn McLaren has been kidnapped from an Intensive Care Unit at a hospital in Tampa, Florida. We follow the search and rescue efforts of her former co-worker, Jerry Apario and rookie FBI agent, Mark Witherall. Obscuring fact with the name of fiction, the search for Jocelyn is global and the stakes couldn’t be higher or weirder.
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Hi Rachael, I’m the person who showed you the photo I took (in 1970) of my USMC squadron’s Reconnaissance version of the F-4 Phantom.
I love your book, The Peanut Butter Pipeline, which I have just finished! You have a remarkably fertile imagination, and your descriptions are so detailed and so accurate, obviously based on some actual experience, that I was indeed seduced by the fascinating tale! I also loved your aesthetic touch: both directly in speaking about the paintings, the clothing, and other things, but also in the more general sense of manifesting a broad ‘good taste’. I always felt that I as a reader was in good hands (even when things got a bit violent). As someone who studied and practiced art, your visual artistry has morphed into word artistry. I would add that you not only bring a sophisticated intelligence to the genre, you also maintain a humane perspective…you care about your characters, and that is a measure of you yourself, ie, your innate goodness.
As a former Vietnam era aviator, I loved the aircraft references (Maule bush plane, Skunk Works/Kelly Johnson/SR-71, etc). And, again, the details (eg, getting under the wing to get shade from the heat). And, oh, the account of Jerry with the Ramjet is one of the all-time great aviation/aerospace scenes in American literature!!
TRES IN UNUM
Security Through Absurdity Books One through Three
9/11. A creepy congressman. Gold coins. Global Finance. A presidential election. Murder. Truth bombs everywhere. Based on a true story, the Security Through Absurdity series entertainingly keeps the reader captivated as America unravels. For the first time, all three books in Goodreads Best New Series of 2014 appear under the same cover!
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First run editions are the first printing of the book on a printing press. They are notorious for weird typos, or strange mistakes. They are soon removed from the market and replaced with corrected editions. Collectors the world over seek out First Run Editions because of their special idiosyncrasies.
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Of course everything in my books has been fictionalized, meaning names changed and locations skewed. But some of what you read is true and informs the next books in the series. Security Through Absurdity contains a string of moments saved in such a way that people might enjoy consuming this information while still feeling safe to share it.
