Crash Gordon and the Mysteries of Kingsburg: 1

EASTER SUNDAY 1973: Just before dawn in Kingsburg California six-year-old Gordon Swannson asthmatic boy genius gets his ass kicked by a spectral Easter Bunny--an event that sends his already hyperactive imagination spiraling toward paranoia. Gordon becomes convinced that ghosts and other weird entities inhabit a daimonic reality that can interact with our everyday world. He starts seeing mystery and danger everywhere in his isolated farming community. He even thinks his best friend Jimmy might be possessed by demons.... JUNE 7th 1979: Reality catches up with Gordons worst imaginings on the day after his thirteenth birthday when his father dies by crashing a Cessna into the living room of their house. Gordon sets out to discover whether the plane crash was an accident or something far more sinister. Before he finds the answer hell experience puberty Pink Floyd trout fishing lesbian vampire movies and midnight cliff-diving with the Hells Angels--all while learning to cope with the trauma-induced narcolepsy that inspires his nickname Crash Gordon.... HALLOWEEN 1982: Gordon meets Jimmys Uncle Lloyd an obscenely rich insurance broker to the rocket industry who makes Woodward and Bernsteins Deep Throat look like a low-level bureaucrat. With Lloyd acting as their demented mentor Gordon and his friends embark on a road trip to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur. Along the way Lloyd lectures them about such diverse topics as hypnotism assassination theories MKULTRA COINTELPRO and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst; serial killers satanic sacrifices interdimensional energy portals and the remote viewing program at the Stanford Research Institute; shamanism ayahuasca Terence McKennas tryptamine-fueled encounters with the Logos and the role future causality plays in the worlds current fate. And thats only a prelude to Lloyds startling explanation of how Gordon and Jimmy have become unwitting participants in a CIA mind control experiment known as Project MONARCH....