J Riley

The Solipsistic Detective J Riley

To understand what is in the mind and what is not is to understand everything. Is reality as simple as it seems? For Jack Riley, whiskey-soaked SOB and unlicensed PI, it is not. Two of his clients are found hanging by the neck from the same rope. Jack suspects their unfaithful spouses who are engaged in an intense affair. His probing leads to the Implicate Order, a shadow gallery of ruthless souls behind an infamous diamond mine collapse. Complicating his investigation, Jack is certain that he exists and is the only real thing. You, me, and everything else in the world actually are in the mind of Jack Riley, and nothing else. Convinced that the writer of this book and the persons to which it is dedicated are pawns of the Implicate Order and his clients' murderers, detective Jack Riley and author J. Riley meet and confront each other. Condemned to being a being who understands being and whose being has a void for its purpose, Jack finally faces up to his freedom, but then must choose to go on living in defiance of a meaningless life that probably is not worth living in the first place.