The Invasion of Heaven

Psychologists in a battle of wits.

The mysterious death of a bipolar housewife forces psychologist Loche Newirth to see traces of insanity in the most terrifying place: in himself. All at once his practice is falling apart, his wife is leaving him, his mentor has gone mad and he is accused of murder. When he is called upon by a stuttering and sometimes stoned portrait painter claiming that his art provides a view into the afterlife, Loche discovers just how little he knew about the super-reality of human perception: that there is more to this life than meets the eye.

In part one of The Newirth Mythology: The Invasion of Heaven, a mystery unravels through a battle of wits between two psychologists.  It is filled with a mind-bending cast of double-crossing characters bent on destroying what was thought to be beyond the reach of human treachery--the hoped for life behind death’s door.  Dr. Newirth must elude supernatural kidnappers and real life police detectives as he learns the harrowing truth about his place in existence. The journey takes him from the mountain lakes of Idaho to Northern Italy to across the astral plane-- sometimes at the heels of a swashbuckling, poetry-spouting patient who often speaks in anagrams and claims he’s more than 600 years old. 

   The Invasion of Heaven brings a new life to the age old questions: why are we here, where are we from and where are we going? Amid swordfights, shootouts, betrayal, just-discovered family members, secret guardians prone to poetic monologues and murders-- in a milieu of fine art, fine food, secret lovers, myth, mafia, ancient languages and the loud music of classic vinyl LPs. It will leave the reader questioning what it means to be human, what lies beyond and, stutteringly, if “The eyes on the inside always tell the t-t-truth.”