Abstract Operator: A Speculative Manual for Inner Survival Paperback – March 3, 2026

From the best-selling author of the critically acclaimed novels KING OF DOGS and CROWBAR comes ABSTRACT OPERATOR: A Speculative Manual for Inner Survival. In CROWBAR, the guidebook is granted to the Rhodesian mercenary Al as a "narrative dividend" related to his entry into the mysterious time-traveling Roadman's Guild. Here appears the manual's full text -- part backstory, part universe build, above all, a meditation on the application of music in the context of spiritual and mechanical warfare, ABSTRACT OPERATOR finds its reader somewhere near the possible intersection of Carlos Castaneda, Rudolph Steiner, Philip K Dick and the Orthodox guerrilla of the high and untracked plain.PRAISE FOR CROWBAR“Staggering, propulsive, spiritual, unsparing achievements under 300 pages are a tremendous rarity in our days, at any price. Run, don’t walk to CROWBAR.”-James Poulos, author of HUMAN FOREVER and I KNOW THIS SOUNDS CRAZY“CROWBAR is one of the best books I’ve ever read and certainly the best book I read in 2025.”-Brad Kelly, author of HOUSE OF SLEEP and THE EARTHEN DARK“CROWBAR reads like the co-project of William S Burroughs and Cormac McCarthy. Surely, I’m exaggerating? I don’t throw comparisons like that around lightly. I haven’t been this excited about a new author in a long time.”-Darryl Cooper, creator of MARTYRMADE podcast Read more