{"product_id":"2940012003393","title":"CHERUBIKON","description":"The CHERUBIKON is a song of redemption, love, and joy. A novel embraced by both women and men from 15 to 100. A sexy, thriller which asks: \"Quisut Deus?\", or Who is like God? It is a living, waking, horror based on surreal, yet real events of\u003cbr\u003eour not-so bygone Barbary Coast era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the story of \"RED\", aka Noel Kadi Carlton, the \"best whore that ever lived\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCast out onto the dark and dingy streets of Chinatown in San Francisco, California, we follow Red down and down for seventy-seven hours in this seamy slice of life thriller based upon the author's own true life experiences and that of his call-girl friends and acquaintances. The Cherubikon is MORE than true. It is based upon real and tragic events. The names and dates have been changed to confound the law and protect those culpable children of the streets I love so well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMadness reigns as love is regained. The scions of San Francisco society, so eager to please their amorous and vile intents, are waking up dead in a wide path behind the footsteps of our heroine. Someone is killing Red's tricks just moments after they have scored, and no one, not even Red knows just who or why.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's a story of one man's miracle. How a recently paroled murderer called the \"Roof Sleeper\", strives to track down his only child, a prostitute named \"Red\", so that he can make amends for the life of horror his crimes have subjected her to. Some thirty years earlier he had murdered two men he had found in flagrant dilecto with her mother, Lamia, an aspiring Hollywood actress who never had one chance in a million to become a star. The Roof Sleeper endured 30 years in the California penal system for this crime of passion, because he could not afford a lawyer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRed is a thirty-seven year old sex worker who walks the mean streets of San Francisco both to earn a living and to accumulate the mountain of funds needed to\u003cbr\u003ebuy her five year old daughter a new heart and a new kidney. Doctor Senegal, the\u003cbr\u003eWest Coast's greatest transplant surgeon prays that a donor can be found in time.\u003cbr\u003eTime is running out, and the fair mulatto child named, Erin Gaea, is dying.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRed, in the last treacherous days of her little daughter Erin's life, makes a desperate deal with God, to stop prostituting her body, if God will save her child.\u003cbr\u003eEverything is falling apart all at once, and Red is approaching madness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, Red's trans-gendered roommate Cheri' steals a black valise containing information so rare, so malevolent, and so valuable, that the parties she has stolen it from will do anything and everything to accomplish its recovery. Cheri'\u003cbr\u003eis kidnapped and held by dark forces who demand that Red bring them that valise.\u003cbr\u003e\"Bring it, or your friend will die. . . \"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRed must choose to attend her dying daughter, or to save sweet Cheri'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll through the three days of night, Red and Cheri are chauffeured around North Beach and Chinatown by gypsy cab driver Miriam Sabra, Israeli tank commander, late of the Six Day War, who assists the girls in their frightening dance with death. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLastly, Red must confront her culpability, and that of Cheri' in the murder of her dear friend Myron Oppenheim, attorney of great renown, who is murdered for no other reason than he knows who and what the girls have done and where they live.\u003cbr\u003eHorror reigns as mayhem rules. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDetective Mike Guzy, Red's much hated ex-paramour, goes out of his way to assist the shadowy international forces that demand the return of the black valise.\u003cbr\u003eGuzy wants Red back, but she wants none of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRed is a woman with a death wish, whose wish for death turns toward life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith it's broad human appeal, the Cherubikon first makes you laugh, then makes you cry, and finally to raise your hands high in joyful celebration of eternal life and Red's ultimate human victory over every evil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe goal of the Cherubikon is to inspire every lovely being to believe that there exists a Great Grand Parent who both loves you, and wants to see you walk the straight path towards love, light, and eternal glory, just like Red.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Cherubikon of Molly Red Doll's essential message is singularly this: \u003cbr\u003e\"THE GREATEST THING YOU WILL EVER LEARN, IS JUST TO LOVE \u0026amp; BE LOVED IN RETURN.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Cherubikon reminds us that there is a God who loves you more than we know;\u003cbr\u003eand therefore in spite of our \"long day's journey into night\", through all the grim darkness of despair, humiliation, cruelty, and summary evil . . . we must never, ever, ever GIVE UP.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor if Red can find cause to return to the Great Grand Parent, so can you, \u003cbr\u003eso can I, so can we.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQuisut Deus?","brand":"Michael Keating","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179898945776,"sku":"2940012003393","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012003393_p0.jpg?v=1763551740","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012003393","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}