VTT

About the Book

VTT is a mind-bending story within a story set in San Francisco and New Orleans in the late 1990s. In this science fiction novel you meet a reincarnated boy who remembers having been killed not so long ago, a voodoo priestess who can shoot sparks from her fingertips, a carnie magician with gold contact lenses who wants to take over the world, a deranged computer technician, a house that sounds like it’s having an orgasm, a headless goat, a laughing rabbit, and a snake tattoo that crawls. The antihero, Crazy Jack, at age thirty, is on a permanent LSD trip. He lives with his cat in the basement of an old Victorian. Jack’s friend Charm is a tattoo artist and free spirit raised in Sebastopol. Binding everything together is a virtual technology that has gone awry. All who even touch it are held captive by it. VTT includes three love stories, two failed marriages, a murder mystery, and as many illusions, delusions, and hallucinations as could possibly fit within its covers. It’s a sci-fi adventure that moves characters from one city to another, natural to supernatural, boyhood to adulthood, and mystery to enlightenment. There is something here for everyone.

About the Author

Timothy S. LaBadie is the founder and chairman of the board of CrossCheck, Inc., the nation’s largest independently owned payment guarantee company. He is the past president of American Marketing Corporation and The Green Sheet, Inc., a national financial services newsletter and magazine publisher. He is also founder and past president of Hasslinger Studios, a fine art cast glass sculpture studio, and Planetspin Productions, which included retail record stores as well as concert and music video production. Mr. LaBadie started writing stories in the third grade and his writing now includes numerous essays, short stories and novels. VTT, his fourth novel, is the first to be published. He has also published Evolve or Die, a collection of essays on business. Mr. LaBadie lives and writes in California. He resides with two kids, two dogs and one wife.