Free Live Free

<p>"Free Live Free," said the newspaper ad, and the out-of-work detective Jim Stubb, the occultist Madame Serpentina, the salesman Ozzie Barnes, and the overweight prostitute Candy Garth are brought together to live for a time in Free's old house, a house scheduled for demolition to make way for a highway.<br><br>Free drops mysterious hints of his exile from his homeland, and of the lost key to his return. And so when demolition occurs and Free disappears, the four make a pact to continue the search, which ultimately takes them far beyond their wildest dreams.<br><br>This is character-driven science fiction at its best by a writer whom, at the time of its first publication, the <i>Chicago Sun-Times</i> called "science fiction's best genuine novelist."<br><br><br><br>At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</p>