Yama Man: McRae meets a demon.
About
December, 1906. For the third time, McRae finds himself conversing with a disembodied spirit. The first time, before the San Francisco Quake, it was a dead Italian soldier. The second, A.Q. (After Quake), she was a live woman lying in a coma thousands of miles distant. Now McRae, reporter for the San Francisco Call, gets sent to cover a story not Quake related. There has been a mining disaster in Bakersfield. Five men are dead, one still living, but trapped underground. Can he be rescued? A great human interest report, dramatic and easy to write, what could go wrong? Until McRae finds himself talking to an actual demon. Or is it a god? Its name is Yama, and it says it wants Justice. Then Crazy Mollie shows up to help.
Praise for this book
Yama man is an imaginative, mystery tale of criminal corruption and graft in early 20th century California that becomes deadly with consequences, explainable in the realm of the supernatural? or, the tormented mind of a trapped miner Hicks? Afflicted by the same demonic visitations as Hicks, San Francisco reporter Broderick McRae and sidekick Crazy Mollie want the truth of the mine cave-in? The poetic justice in the ending makes full read well worth it.