The blockbuster serialized novel!
by Jon Mooallem
in association with Eli Horowitz Entertainment Solutions
For centuries, they were whispered about in local legend as schifosi, or “the disgusting ones”— but no one in Venice imagined they’re real.
When an invasion of these rampaging sea monsters threatens the citizens and tourists of the world’s most beautiful city, it’s up to an ad-hoc team of scientists, soldiers of fortune and traditional gondoliers to battle them back—in militarized, Batmobile-style gondolas called . . . “gondos.”
Millie Brooks—the daughter of itinerant Phish heads, raised by her swamp-rat grandpa in the Everglades—finds herself, at age 29, barely scraping by in Venice as a scientist-for-hire. Her employer is the shadowy ELAINE Corporation, an engineering firm constructing a state-of-the-art seawall to protect the floating city. But, Millie discovers, ELAINE’s innovation is also birthing new dangers in Venice’s now-stagnant lagoon.
A palazzo mysteriously collapses. A trail of floating carnage accumulates in the city’s storied canals. To save Venice from a threat much grislier than rising seas, it will take a combination of Millie’s microbiological expertise and a treasury of secret lore passed down through generations of Venetian gondolieri . . . plus some very tough, very heavily-armed, aquatic killing machines.
From the mind that brought you many acclaimed works of serious journalism, and also a podcast where he just walked in the woods and didn’t talk, comes a working draft of a novel inspired by the paperback movie novelizations of our youths—an action-packed parable of how good it feels to stop despairing about the environmental unraveling of our planet and start kicking some butt.
Independence Day meets The Da Vinci Code in . . .
Gondos: The Novelization of the Major Motion Picture "Gondos!”
Read it . . . TODAY!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Blades Carving the Water
Chapter 2: Who are the Schifosi?
Chapter 3: A Noxious Nursery
Chapter 4: Capturing the Object
Chapter 5: Fist
Chapter 6: Rampage at the Rialto
Chapter 7: A Taste for Human Flesh
Chapter 8: A New Machine
Chapter 9: “They’ve Returned”
Chapter 10: Digestion
Chapter 11: The Battle of the Biennale
Chapter 12: Ancient Lore Revealed
Chapter 13: Spontaneous Zoological Instability
Chapter 14: Get in the Gondos—Now!
Chapter 15: Walls of Sound
Chapter 16: A Pound of Flesh
Chapter 17: To Live Is To Fight
The End
