Sock Monkey Blues
by John Laurence Robinson
Category: Fiction

Life has never been simple for private investigator Joe Box. A transplanted Kentuckian, Joe has for the past thirty years made an uneasy peace with his Cincinnati home, using his wits, his fists, and his wry sense of humor as he strives to do the best job he can. For at his core, Joe Box is a throwback to an antebellum time: he is a Southern man of honor. But Joe's latest case may be his last. The job seems easy: find an industrialist's missing teenage daughter and bring her home. But for Joe Box, nothing is ever easy. Because in finding her Joe will encounter neo-Nazi geneticists, a subterranean chamber of horrors...and a human killing machine known only as Boneless Chuck. And what starts as a simple disappearance quickly develops into something far worse, something that will not only test Joe's skills and his fragile faith, but his very sanity. So strap down and hang on. Joe Box has just been dropped into Hell.