The Donut Legion: A Novel

Charlie Garner has a bad feeling. His ex-wife, Meg, has been missing for over a week & one quick peek into her home shows all her possessions packed up in boxes. Neighbors claim she’s running from bill collectors, but Charlie suspects something more sinister is afoot. Meg was last seen working at the local donut shop, a business run by a shadow group most refer to as ‘The Saucer People’; a space-age, evangelist cult who believe their compound to be the site of an extraterrestrial Second Coming.
 
Along with his brother, Felix, & beautiful, randy journalist Amelia “Scrappy” Moon, Charlie uncovers strange & frightening details about the compound (read: a massive, doomsday storehouse of weapons, a leashed chimpanzee!) When the body of their key informer is found dead with his arms ripped out of their sockets, Charlie knows he’s in danger but remains dogged in his quest to rescue Meg.

Joe R. Lansdale is the author of nearly four dozen novels, including Rusty Puppy, the Edgar-award winning The Bottoms, Sunset and Sawdust, & Leather Maiden. He has received nine Bram Stoker Awards, the American Mystery Award, the British Fantasy Award, & the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature. He lives with his family in Nacogdoches, Texas.