Geminga: Sword of the Shining Path

Melvin Litton

6/2016 · Crossroad Press

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Imagine … a raven on the branch of a fruit tree speaks to you, complimenting you on the song you have just sung.  You, Rodger Games, carpenter by day and guitar-player by night, are drawn by the wonder: the how, where, and why of its origins.  A dialogue begins.  But along with the mystery of the raven arrives the snake, a deadly ‘breath-of-heaven’, its assassin partner.  The duo once worked for Shining Path, the Peruvian Maoist movement founded by the arch-ideologue, Zalo.  Soon the trail leads to the Medellin Cartel and ‘The Center’ – a secret institute staffed by the tutored sons of Mengele and located in the remotest Amazon.

Adjacent to the dialogue appear farm workers and laborers – Black, White, Indian, and Hispanic – a young woman of focal beauty named Luana, and a midnight prowler who drives a black Porsche; and always, the ubiquitous digressions of memory.  Where will it lead?  To what end?  Consider: ravens, snakes, and revolutionaries, God, Devil, man, and woman all transformed into a pair of dice … roll ’em...whadaya get?  The lucky seven? double-sixes? or snake-eyes?  And with what consequence?

The mystery is something of a creation myth.  For eventually there is a harvest: the cruel scythe of political terrorism; the blessing of woman, fruit and song, and the promise of a mystical union, for with the harvest is planted the seed of new potential … Geminga.