After the events of 9/11 all but destroy their Tribeca loft in New York City, Lewis and Gigi and their three coming of age sons relocate to their summer home in Montauk in the East Hamptons. Gigi loves to cook and has always dreamed of starting her own restaurant. Their goal is to turn a run-down ice cream parlor into a functional restaurant that serves substantial honest fare.
Montauk Tango provides an account of this familys journey to restaurant ownership, from the purchase of the property to its renovation and eventual opening in a seaside summer retreat. Author Lewis Gross believes 668 the Gig Shack, a Bohemian bistro, will be an immediate hit. But opening weekend is a disaster. Unfortunately, some of the locals dont want to see their fish turned into tacos or fishnets worn as stockings. Novices in business, they encounter many setbacks and a conspiracy by some of the locals to put them out of business.
In the seaside town of Summerville, 2038, the virus has mutated past testing. Everyone breathes under surveillance. The ThetaKey, a biometric nasal implant, tracks your vitals, your dreams, even your dissent. SEERNet watches all.
Cardigan, Catshirt, and Spider, three sons of a rogue dentist-turned-restaurant owner, find themselves at the heart of a strange resistance. Their father once pulled teeth; now he pulls threads from an unraveling world. As public health becomes holy law, he invokes a forbidden legacy: occult frequencies, an alias of Aleister Crowley, and an alien being known only as LAM.
What began as quarantine becomes revelation. The Beast isn’t just political. It’s psychic. Ancient. And it wears a mask made of wires.
Part dystopian fable, part techno-occult thriller, Brand of the Beast is a darkly satirical tale of control, awakening, and the cost of true will. It asks the question no antibody can answer.