The Armageddon Rag: A Novel

€œThe best novel concerning the American pop music culture of the sixties I€ve ever read.€€"Stephen King
 
From #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin comes the ultimate novel of revolution, rock €n€ roll, and apocalyptic murder€"a stunning work of fiction that portrays not just the end of an era, but the end of the world as we know it.
 
Onetime underground journalist Sandy Blair has come a long way from his radical roots in the €60s€"until something unexpectedly draws him back: the bizarre and brutal murder of a rock promoter who made millions with a band called the Nazg»l. Now, as Sandy sets out to investigate the crime, he finds himself drawn back into his own past€"a magical mystery tour of the pent-up passions of his generation. For a new messiah has resurrected the Nazg»l and the mad new rhythm may be more than anyone bargained for€"a requiem of demonism, mind control, and death, whose apocalyptic tune only Sandy may be able to change in time . . . before everyone follows the beat.
 
€œThe wilder aspects of the €60s . . . roar back to life in this hallucinatory story by a master of chilling suspense.€€"Publishers Weekly
 
€œWhat a story, full of nostalgia and endless excitement. . . . It€s taut, tense, and moves like lightning.€€"Tony Hillerman
 
€œDaring . . . a knowing, wistful appraisal of . . . a crucial American generation.€€"Chicago Sun-Times
 
€œMoving . . . comic . . . eerie . . . really and truly a walk down memory lane.€€"The Washington Post