An accident at sea cuts short John Eyre’s career as an oil rig diver and his romance with Rachel.

A damaged John roams Central America, undergoing one transformation after another, until his consciousness is hijacked by a local trickster god.

When a mask containing the god is stolen and the people ask John to find their protective spirit, he embarks on the riskiest of adventures.

His allies are a reluctant Rachel, fellow lodgers from a London guest house, and a Guatemalan girl with a unique jade ball.

adventure fantasy thriller
152,000 words
 
“He went fishing,” wheezed the gentleman from South London. “All the way across town to the river. He was so bloody huge, he’d limp and lurch along faster than anyone else could walk.”

“He was very big, very ugly and very silent,” added Kayam. “Well, not so much ugly as disfigured. Pretty, he wasn’t.”

“Now and then he’d smell of something like meaty old boots,” said the Scotsman from behind thick, dark glasses.

“He read thirteen newspapers every day and never gave no trouble,” declared their landlady.