The Murder Rule is pretty much completed except for a final review and edit. The photo above, taken by myself during a visit in 2009 to the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D. C., is an aquamarine picture under a shining light, and is featured in the cover art I just completed last night, Sunday, July 9, 2023. When the final edit is completed, I will transfer it to a PDF file and also register it with the Library of Congress as an e-book only. That way, I can prove it is copyrighted so that ChatGPT or other “AI apps” can’t steal the copyright! Or criminals residing in various nations…hackers, right?
That said, here is the “official” Introduction to The Murder Rule:
The Murder Rule is a “spin-off” of The Prodigal Band Trilogy, which is composed of three novels–Battle of the Band, The Prophesied Band, and The Prodigal Band. The Murder Rule is also composed of three parts, whereby the main characters as well as the narrator of each part stem from the trilogy. While The Prodigal Band Trilogy, based on the Biblical New Testament Gospel of Luke Chapter 15 Parable of the Prodigal Son, is primarily a novel trilogy of spiritual overtones mixed with bits of comedy, romance, mystery, tragedy, occult, drama, satire and other genres, The Murder Rule is focused on suspense and mystery drama that mirror conspiracy truths that exist today and have existed for many years, whereby those who choose to tie themselves to an evil agenda realize its evil and then decide to ‘leave the reservation’ so-to-speak, are punished, either by murder or a murder plot that fails in the end. Yet The Murder Rule also has spiritual overtones as well.
Part One, narrated by a pop culture pundit featured as narrator of The Prodigal Band, Lloyd Denholm, is highlighted by a rocker character featured in Battle of the Band named Denny Spradlin, front man of a rival band to the prodigal band, whom the media reports ‘committed suicide’ in early 1996, but was in fact murdered because he began turning against the music industry ‘narrative.’ To quote a line that opens The Prodigal Band, ‘If dead rock stars could talk,’ which was inspired by actual events: one, the murders of Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell for trying to expose child trafficking–the media claimed they ‘committed suicide’ by doorknob, for one thing, but there are several others instances as well–do the research. And since Spradlin supposedly committed suicide—just as several rock stars from the 60s to the 90s supposedly committed suicide when in fact they were murdered for various reasons—is why he was chosen as the victim in Part One of The Murder Rule.
Part Two, narrated by a fan and part-time roadie of the prodigal band Sound Unltd called Bobby Jones, deals with why he later joined the trilogy’s evil new age cult called ‘The Church of the Circle of Unity’ as well as a ‘megachurch’ pastored by a man who wanted to ban his ‘employers’ from the US because of their supposed ‘devil worship.’ When Bobby left the church he committed to the new age cult, but soon regretted that decision. The result? Leaders of that cult, one of whom is featured in The Prodigal Band, tried to ‘teach Bobby a lesson,’ but failed, as Bobby survived a murder attempt (but lost his St. Bernard dog in the process). The character narrating Part Two, Bobby, was chosen not only because he ‘regretted’ partaking in an evil cult, but also because he truly accepted Christ as Savior and composed a song about Christ that would be sold to the prodigal band in Chapter Nine of The Prodigal Band.
Part Three is also narrated by Lloyd Denholm and features an important support character within the entire Prodigal Band Trilogy, prodigal band manager Joe Phillips, who is tied to a very elite and powerful family. Yet, he opposes the evil agenda of this family and refuses to take part in the evil agenda and is considered a ‘wayward son’ by these evil family members. Thus, ‘the murder rule’ could also apply to him, even though he is the son of one of the world’s most powerful individuals. Now, why would these powerful individuals seek to destroy members of their own families, or minions whom they needed to carry out their agendas but, at some point, refused to do so? The likely murder of Amschel Mayer James Rothschild, son of banker oligarch Victor Rothschild–but who lived his life as an ordinary man and loved his wife and children and refused to toe the line of his bankster oligarch lineage and who supposedly ‘committed suicide’ on a bathrobe belt!–is the proof that even sons of oligarchs or high-level oligarchy minions are not above ‘the murder rule.’ Phillips was chosen as the main character in Part Three due to his elite roots and to show that elite roots won’t necessarily prevent one from being ‘murder ruled.’
Folks, this world seems to be getting more and more consumed by evil as time goes by, and it is my ‘mission’ so-to-speak to expose this evil in fiction mirrored by the evil in the real world often clouded in mystery. Thus, a ‘mystery’ or crime novel based upon truth…with spiritual overtones, of course!
Likely the next post will be in late July…I may also include an Addendum at the end of the novel. Cheers!
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