Psychotropia

A trippy trek through America's virtual zeitgeist, Psychotropia blurs the lines between reality and illusion. Deepfakes, holograms, spy gadgets, and slapstick news flood the landscape, a testament to humanity's addiction to lurid escapism. That obsession engulfs retired journalist Liam Kohl after his psychic wife's cremains are stolen by Maestro, aka Ouroboros, a fanatical cult leader.Desperate to fulfill his wife's dying wish, Kohl and his bickering company embark on a treacherous journey from Oregon to find a way across the closed Idaho border and reclaim Joan's ashes.Known for his controversial "slash therapy" - a cocktail of psilocybin and human remains - Maestro believes it unlocks new levels of consciousness and powers in its recipients.His objective? To create a legion of elite followers who will change the world.Maria, carrying a child Maestro believes is his successor, joins Liam and his posse as they prepare to navigate through drones, gunmen, and wildfires. Can they protect her and her son from Maestro's twisted ministry? The stakes soar as they race their foe to a sawmill that occupying cultists are fortifying against a siege. There, with their hallucinations fused by slash, Liam and his nemesis confront each other and their demons.Buckle up for a mind-bending, psychedelic odyssey filled with danger, gallows humor, and shocking revelations.

Reunited for a CNN ratings coup in 2035, members of Liam Kohl's viral "Jesus Squad" plot to rescue the group's namesake, one-year-old Jesús, from the cult leader Maestro; newly rebranded as Salvador, the psilocybin evangelist vanished with the celebrated newborn in the wake of his clash with the Squad a year earlier in the Idaho panhandle.Maria, a powerful Mayan curandera, enlists JSquad in a desperate bid to get her son back, along with the stolen ashes of Liam's psychic wife, Joan.In their way is Salvador, now spiritual guru to trillionaire stoner Kosmo Biota, the world's oldest human, obsessed with curing his fatal disease; they are rumored to be holed up in a lunar lair along with Biota's dying octopus, Mauritius II, with whom they believe aliens are communicating.Can Maria save Jesús from Salvador's malevolent grip? Can Liam reclaim his wife's precious ashes? Strap yourself in for another mind-bending, psychedelic, out-of-this world odyssey into Psychotropia.