The Fruits of Babylon

The Fruits of Babylon is a vast American epic that traces the making of Los Angeles from dust and derricks to spectacle, dominion, and decay. Moving across generations, this novel charts how power is born and how it passes forward, altered but unbroken, through blood and inheritance.The book begins at the dawn of Hollywood, where fortunes from oil bankroll the first cinematic kingdoms, and illusion becomes industry. Silent-film studios swell with ambition and excess. Visionaries harden into tyrants. Creation and corruption advance side by side. As the city grows, so too does the moral debt it bequeaths to those who come after.Decades later, that inheritance resurfaces in a quieter, more brutal form. Power sheds its pageantry and survives through obligation, fear, and force, revealing the present as the final expression of choices made long before memory.The Fruits of Babylon fuses historical vision with modern noir. This is not merely a novel of Los Angeles, it is a myth of American ambition, and of the terrible permanence of what men set in motion when they mistake power for providence.

Pagina's: 336, Hardcover, Blacktop Press