Dead Orchid
Publisher: Independently published
Published: August 14, 2024
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9798333922984
Description: Set against the oppressive heat and swirling chaos of Southeast Asia, Dead Orchid follows the lives of three broken souls, each bound to one another by a web of suffering, violence, and the sinister presence of Black Dog Island. A Cambodian girl, once trafficked and violated, is reborn as a flesh-craving demon, her vengeance as consuming as her hunger. In the shadows of the same world, a paranoid expatriate begins his hallucinatory descent into madness, unwittingly propelled by a mysterious batch of experimental drugs that fracture his sense of reality. Meanwhile, a disabled survivor of the Khmer Rouge's killing fields has but one goal—to exact brutal revenge on the foreigners responsible for his brother's death.

At the heart of these intersecting lives lies Black Dog Island, an ominous presence that may hold the key to their fates. A place where past atrocities and future horrors converge, it becomes the backdrop for their twisted journeys of survival, revenge, and self-destruction.

A visceral, unrelenting exploration of trauma and exile, Dead Orchid delves into the darker corners of human experience, offering a meth-fueled meditation on sex, death, and the ghosts of a violent past. In this brutal landscape, the characters struggle to make sense of the pain that binds them, while the shadow of Black Dog Island looms ever larger, offering no promises, only the grim reality of their shattered worlds.


"A depraved individual known as the clown, a maimed correction camp survivor turned sinister shaman, a horny, drug-addled idiot, an unhinged secret agent, a vengeful ghost; a booty hauled back from the depths of hell, a lurid fever dream, a nightmarish traipse through seedy rooms and festering jungles. Dead Orchid is all of this and more, a hideously funny and graphic foray into the madness of addiction in the maniac heat of Cambodia’s expat scene."
**- Jan Miklaszewicz, author of Eyes Wide Open**