Dog logic

Hertell Daggett is not what he used to be: once married, once a physicist, and once shot in the head in a New Year’s accident, or possibly 4th of July, he could never remember -- the doctors got the bullet out, but a few specks of copper remained floating in his brain, connecting parts no longer connected in the rest of us, filaments going back to the beginning of time.  Hertell remembers the yodeling of dinosaurs, the dry humor of mastodons, and the rubbery smell of trilobites.  He’d once had a future, but now he lives on the outskirts of Bakersfield, a damaged caretaker of a failing pet cemetery.

Hertell discovers a time-capsule, actually more of a vast time-cavern full of people who’ve lived beneath the pet cemetery since 1963, part of a long-forgotten Government program to preserve Western civilization in the charred aftermath of the massive nuclear war triggered by JFK’s assassination – at least that’s what their computer simulation predicted. 

Hertell becomes their shepherd and protector leading the duck-and-cover civilization into the astounding, mystifying, and often dismaying world that has wobbled on without them.  

Like one of those lost tribes stumbling from the jungle into civilization, only this time it’s not the lost tribe overwhelmed by civilization, but very much the other way around.

Book of the Year Independent Author Network - Humor/Satire

Silver Winner Foreword INDIES Book Of The Year Award - Science Fiction

Bronze Winner Readers' Favorite Award - Literary Fiction

Finalist National Indie Excellence Awards - Contemporary Novel