Malachi

Malachi
They said he didn’t exist. But it was a lie. I knew that even before I saw him; and even before I’d taken his cold hand in mine and kissed it. So like marble it was, so smooth and cool to the touch; so lifeless and yet so perfect. I could have held his hand for an eternity.

MALACHI: a novel / completed 2007

In the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles, Malachi has become the stuff of legend, his influence, for good or ill, felt by not only the men and women who sleep on the streets but by the lawyers, police officers and shopkeepers who spend their days there. No one knows who Malachi is, though some people think they do. But who is Malachi and what is it about him that could have left such an indelible impression on eight people whose lives have only one thing in common: Malachi.

Malachi doesn’t attempt to tell the story of MALACHI, for how can anything be said of an unknown quantity? But what MALACHI does offer is a glimpse into the lives of eight people who, in their own, often misguided, attempts to understand what Malachi wants from them, find themselves at each others’ throats. But with a serial killer stalking the streets and vigilante mobs out for revenge, is it any surprise that people have lost their minds?

No two people view Malachi the same way, but is anyone right about him? Was the brutal, seemingly unprovoked murder of an unidentified man Malachi’s doing? Or was the unidentified man Malachi himself? And how is it that one man can be an object of adoration for some and a vile and hateful thing to others?

More to the point: is Malachi even a man at all, or is he, along with the boy who appears at our darkest hours, the figment of fevered and hysterical imaginations? Though if Malachi doesn’t exist, why would eight people who barely one another believe he does? And why would these people stop at nothing, even at the risk of their lives and the lives around them, until they find him? Has Malachi really driven these people mad?

Though the course of eight separate but interlocking stories, MALACHI attempts to answer these questions by telling the story of a city, a city imploding under the weight of its neuroses, the neuroses of people with too many questions and not enough answers. It’s a nightmare world where all enemies are invisible and all friends suspect; a world where death lurks around the corner and comes only when it’s least expected. But is it death that Malachi has in store for the cemetery caretaker, the psychic, the murderer, the anarchist, the priest, the shopkeeper, the cop and the homeless woman? Or do their fates depend on each other?

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Baron Brady Aims to Satisfy Independent Publishing Publicity Craving with Print-on-Demand Availability of Malachi at Lulu.com

LOS ANGELES, CA -JULY 20, 2007- Baron Brady offers an unsettling look at life in Skid Row with the publication of Malachi in conjunction with Lulu (www.lulu.com), the world’s fastest-growing provider of print-on-demand books.

In L.A.’s Skid Row district, Malachi has become the stuff of legend, his influence, for good or ill, felt by not only the men and women who sleep on the streets but by the lawyers, police officers and shopkeepers who spend their days there. No one knows who Malachi is, though some people think he may be responsible for the murder of an unidentified man.

But who is Malachi and what is it about him that could have left such an indelible impression on eight people who attempt to answer these questions; and, in so doing, tell the story of a city, a city imploding under the weight of its neuroses, the neuroses of people with too many questions and not enough answers. It’s a nightmare world where all enemies are invisible and all friends suspect; a world where death lurks around the corner and comes only when it’s least expected. But is it death that Malachi has in store for these people? Or do their fates depend on each other?

Link to Publication*:http://www.lulu.com/bbrady or http://www.baronbrady.com/index.html

ABOUT AUTHOR

A practicing attorney, Baron Brady has written five novels and twenty-six screenplays over the last ten years. He graduated from Pomona College and has a J.D from Pepperdine University. This is his fifth novel. His other novels have also been published on Lulu.

ABOUT LULU

Founded in 2002, Lulu is the world’s fastest-growing print-on-demand marketplace for digital do-it-yourselfers.Please see www.lulu.com for more information.

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MEDIA CONTACT:Baron Brady, baronbrady@gmail.com.

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