Selective Perception: Misdirection

By Anthony M Johnson and Anthony M. Johnson

"I am your antithesis, the blasphemer who dares to defy your dark master. Embrace my blessing, my poisoned gift to you: for what you perceive as goodness is nothing more than a brief stint of pleasure before the suffering that is the Hell to come " - Adrian Vantel, Chapter 5 June 5, 1968. Anti-Jewish nationalist Sirhan Sirhan guns down Robert F. Kennedy at a political rally event in California. Subdued, arrested, and tried in quick succession, it was a quick and uneventful trial that many now regard as the first spark of America's suffering in the tumultuous war that rages in the Middle East. Decades have since passed, greater catastrophes claiming many more lives with each decade, as Sirhan's five minutes of fame have been reduced to nothing but the workings of an unstable man now locked away in a San Diego prison, the assassin's story and motivations changing every time he's asked. The one urban legend to go unsolved? The mystery of a hypnotist, a woman in a Polka dot dress. December 1, 1998. Adrian Vantel is one of the world's premier hitman for hire. Ex-Green Beret, veteran of combat operations in Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, and a spy rumored to have even helped topple the Soviet Union, there isn't a job the bored mercenary isn't willing to take as long as the price is right. Right when he feels it's time to quit while he's ahead, he gets one last job unlike anything he's heard of before. A daughter of a tech mogul is dead in a ritual circle with nineteen other New Yorkers, no one as a suspect save for a certain hypnotist seen wearing a flashy dress; Polka dot, to be precise. With a wealthy father Evan Garrick, the Kennedys and even the President calling for revenge, an assassin will prowl the streets of New York and face the Yakuza, the Irish Mob, and the other scum that the Big Apple has to offer in an attempt to stop Adrian Vantel in his bloody investigation. Yet as he draws closer to the Woman who has stolen so many lives, he'll find more than one urban legend and myth to be true as men become monsters... Join Adrian Vantel and discover the truth behind the woman in the Polka dot dress in the first novel in The Mercenary's Salvation saga, a satirical franchise lampooning the Cold War, the War on Terror, and our gracious government. Dark humor, conspiracies, steamy love and excessive violence are to be found within Anthony M. Johnson's novel, paying homage and criticizing many of the series you know and love. If you miss the days when your dime novel detectives weren't afraid to smoke or take the law head on, then prepare yourself for a revival of that old Noir hero... Because when money is on the line, nothing but Heaven or Hell will stop Adrian Vantel from the kill.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1530850177
• ISBN13: 9781530850174
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"