Iconoclast: or, the Death and Resurrection of Lazarus Keaton
About this ebook
Lazarus Keaton was his family's great disappointment. Instead of marrying a nice girl and taking over the family business, he's a sexually confused claims adjuster for a company that uploads your consciousness into a digital afterlife. Sent across the globe to oversee the site of a deadly train crash, he's stopped dead in his tracks by the unlikely afterlife package a hairdresser had: sainthood.
His questions go unanswered when the Vatican dispatches a menacing Inquisitor to take over. In exchange for his silence about the odd case, his bosses offer him a raise, but he's in too deep to stop. Alongside Silvia, a local detective, they're thrust into the throngs of a wild conspiracy centered on the world's richest man, with all roads leading them off-world to his luxurious space station. After Laz's company declares him dead, there's no turning back.
He either uncovers the truth, or meets with a grisly end at the hands of the Inquisitor.
"A novel for our times. Near future tale of oligarchs against the church in a post-climate change universe, filled with treachery, betrayal, and - in the end - hope."
- Nathan Lowell, creator of the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper
“Walsh manages to perfectly balance humor and a harsh critique of rampant capitalism and corrupt religions in this epic space bound whodunit. You’ll love the characters! They are the beating heart of this novel and you’ll continually fly through the pages to see if they’ll rise above the systemic pressures the church and an unhinged billionaire cyborg throw their way.”
- Corey Farrenkopf, author of Living in Cemeteries and Haunted Ecologies
About the author
Dave Walsh was once the world's foremost kickboxing journalist, if that makes any sense. He's still trying to figure that one out.
The thing is, he always loved writing and fiction was always his first love. He wrote 'Godslayer' in hopes of leaving the world of combat sports behind, which, as you can guess, did not exactly work. That's when a lifelong love of science fiction led him down a different path.
Now he writes science fiction novels about far-off worlds, weird technology and the same damned problems that humanity has always had, just with a different setting.
He does all of this while living in the high desert of Albuquerque and raising twin boys with his wife. He's still not sure which is harder: watching friends get knocked out or raising boys.
