The Fissure King: A Novel in Five Stories
About this audiobook
In the classic noir tradition of Have Gun—Will Travel, Rachel Pollack—one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Tarot—gives us the tale of Jack Shade, an occult shaman for hire.
Jack Shade has a secret, and this hidden part of his past sends him on a journey through time and space and a great number of metaphysical doorways. From the cozy poker table in the eleventh-floor apartment of the Hôtel de Rêve Noire to the ethereal Forest of Souls to the faded houses along the Gold River, Jack flows in and out of this world. Even when his own duplicate hires him to kill himself, Jack is mercury in motion. Jack the Nimble, Jack the Quick.
The Fissure King: A Novel in Five Stories collects the four existing Jack Shades novellas and shows us Jack’s final trick—one last story that finally reveals Jack’s true nature.
Only Rachel Pollack, one of the world’s greatest authorities of Tarot and an award-winning novelist and comic book writer, could dream of someone as mischievous and mythopoeic as Jack Shade. The king is dead. Long live the king.
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About the author
Rachel Pollack (1945-2023) was an award-winning fiction writer and author of numerous books on the Tarot. She was considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on the modern interpretation of the Tarot. She was a member of the American Tarot Association, the International Tarot Society, and the Tarot Guild of Australia, and taught at the famed Omega Institute for fifteen years.
Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit. Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Shorts for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbins’s Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and has won several Earphones Awards.
