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In the first installment of Joshua Mohr’s Viking Punk saga, a West Oakland musician acquires a new name and new calling. Chasing down a gang of thieves, Saint the Terrifying turns a gritty urban detective story into the stuff of legend.

"It is a search for salvation, for Valhalla, for community in a shifting and merciless world, that is ultimately deeply human."—KQED

"Exploding across the page in glittering sentences that tell an eccentric and grimy vigilante story."—NPR

Join us on Tuesday, March 18th at 6:30 PM for a virtual conversation with Joshua Mohr, author of Saint the Terrifying. Keep an eye out for free giveaway copies of Saint the Terrifying at your community library!

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About the Book

Bay Area author Joshua Mohr taps the troubled vein of class warfare and gentrification in the Bay Area to tell an ambitious tale of love and retribution. Saint’s role as hardboiled detective is informed by Mohr’s deft interweaving of recent history, including Oakland’s Ghost Ship warehouse fire—a tragedy that Mohr revisits in a bold act of reclamation. As Saint uncovers the crew who’ve been stealing the gear around town, the truth threatens to unravel Saint’s world, leading to a heartbreaking showdown. Propelled by a broken Baroque of punk language, Saint the Terrifying examines tensions between community and individual identity, social activism and vigilantism, while taking the reader on a roller coaster ride of hard-boiled twists and hardcore music.

About the Author

Mohr is the author of eight books, including Model Citizen and Damascus, which the New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” He’s also written Some Things that Meant the World to Me, one of O Magazine’s 10 Terrific Reads, and All This Life, winner of the Northern California Book Award. Termite Parade was an editors’ choice on the New York Times Best Seller List. In his Hollywood life, he’s sold projects to AMC, ITV, and Amblin Entertainment. https://www.joshuamohr.net/