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Press Release:
Hot New Mystery from Circus Magazine founder
J. G. Rothberg Now in Release
(New York) "Love Song for Montana Greene," the
explosive novel from J.G. Rothberg,
is a wild ride through the world of Kabbalah, Romance, and Mystery,
and a sizzling new page-turner suspense book. When Montana
Greene is about to return to New York from Prague where he has just
completed studies for a Ph.D in Mysticism and Kabbalah he receives a
phone call from the U.S. embassy informing him that his old
professor was murdered the night before, and he is a suspect.
Montana embarks on a
quest with his friend and student of Kabbalah, the celebrated
Metropolitan Opera singer Miki Bel-Hart,
on a
danger-laden trek to unlock clues Montana’s professor scribbled with
his own blood moments before his death.
The protagonists embark on the terrifying
investigation of Kabbalah’s great mysteries, and the myth of the
Golem of Prague; and unknown to them, a search for a vital antidote
that will save Montana from gruesome death.
This bone chilling, mystery thriller
leads Montana and Miki on perilous travels through France, Spain and
Germany, just a step ahead of violent goons, seeking to unravel
these same clues.
“Love song for Montana Greene” by J. G. Rothberg creates a chilling thriller, merging murder mystery with mystical writings, collected from more than 3,000 years of religious and literary history, while leaving readers captivated from the first to the very last page. On Sale Now.
Love Song for Montana Greene -- Mystery Romance Thriller by J.G.
Rothberg
Synopsis:
A murder at midnight at an historic Prague cemetery sets off a frenzied
hunt for mythical artifacts that reveal sinister and deadly international
dealings. The victim is Kabbalah scholar and scientist, Professor Alfred
Augsburg who developed killer viruses and their antidotes for the old
Soviet Union. Augsburg leaves macabre clues he believes his student
Montana Greene can untangle. To fulfill a promise he made to the old
professor on his last day of study, Montana persuades noted soprano
Miriam Bel-Hart, the mistress of Augsburg’s tycoon partner in crime,
Abu al-Kahlil, to join him on a danger-laden quest to unlock the clues
Augsburg scribbled in a book of Psalms with his own blood moments before
his death.
This bone chilling,
mystery thriller leads Montana and Miriam on perilous treks through
France, Spain and Germany, just a step ahead of al-Kahlil’s violent
goons. The protagonists embark on the terrifying investigation of Kabbalah’s
great mysteries, and the myth of the Golem of Prague; and unknown to
them, a quest for a vital antidote that will save Montana from gruesome
death.
Gerry Rothberg
/ Circus Magazine
February 9, Notebook - J.G. Rothberg.
Plunging into writing my new novel, "32 Tin Cans," A Story about Sex, Love, Drugs, Betrayal, Art and Andy Warhol.The novel opens in the early 1960s, when Andy was at a peak with his art. A time for Andy, when The Campbell Soup Cans, the Marilyns and Disaster canvases were gaining prestige in the world of pop art.
The protagonist of my story is Betsey, Andy's childhood friend from Pittsburgh where the two grew up, She arrives in New York and forges relationships with two men associated with Andy's Factory.
I have completed about 16,000 words so far, in a section I will publish after a few more re-writes as Part 1. This section opens with the highly charged sexual relationship between Betsey and Zeke, an assistant at the Warhol factory, and grows to include Ethan, an art critic as friend and companion. Andy arrives on the scene and we see the inner sanctum of his pop art world.Check back to learn more on the progress of this story.