The Well Spent Death of Eightball Barnett

Three years before retired ‘herb’ smuggler Jack Lee leaves Brazil for India, ‘Eightball’ Barnett who lives near to Jack’s ridgetop cabin in extreme West Georgia, decides on one final ‘play’. ‘Eightball’ is a former operative in a quasi-governmental dirty tricks outfit that worked in South America to further the interests of U.S. corporations, by any filthy and sordid means necessary. He has been living with a bad case of the remorse since leaving ‘The Unit’ ten years before, and when diagnosed with a terminal medical condition determines to redeem himself in his own eyes. By the time he is finished, some very bad actors have been brought to book, although that book is one heretofore unknown.
Meanwhile, a beautiful Indian professor of parapsychology has arrived on Eightball’s doorstep by ‘accident’. When ‘Eightball’s play’ is completed, and some very toxic secrets have been published, they leave for India , where ‘Eightball’ experiences an altogether different ‘play’, in the form of a leela, or cosmic play Indian-style, and ‘Eightball’ and Jack Lee meet.