![]() ![]() Thomas spends his time traveling between the US and Vietnam, and his affinity for Asian culture definitely shows. Then he meets a man with a high-tech lighter in the bathroom, and things change considerably. He pauses for a minute in the train station and contemplates his past, remembers a lover who died of the same disease, and resigns himself to planning out his final days in Paxton (a.k.a. Bum is infected with a new, strikingly resistant STD called Mustav Six-seventy, and is slowly dying. The novel opens on a male prostitute, Bum Junket, in a train station. Take, for example, his newest novel, Health Agent (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2008). ![]() What else could explain the harrowing, mind-bending, pulse-pounding fiction that he pumps out on such a regular basis? Author Jeffrey Thomas, a Westborough native, is most likely deeply disturbed, as many artistic geniuses are. ![]()
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