First came betrayal. Then came scripture.
When Frank Peniston discovers that his longtime partner Ronald Whitaker has secretly published a tell-all exposé titled The Gospel of Tank, the town of Welvin explodes into a frenzy. Overnight, Frank becomes "Tank Piston" ? a caricature of himself immortalized in prose, mocked by children, worshipped by cults, and canonized by the Buttered Path as prophecy.
Humiliated and furious, Frank tries everything: lawsuits, diner showdowns, even sabotage at Ronald's book events. But the more he fights the story, the stronger it grows. The knitting circle attacks. The cult rallies. The town chants his new name in unison. And Ronald, reluctant prophet or not, is dragged into the spotlight he never wanted.
With Welvin's future spiraling into paperback-fueled chaos, Frank must decide what matters more: destroying Ronald's "gospel" or protecting the man who, against all odds, may have understood him better than anyone.
Armed with literary grenades, duct-taped gadgets, and metaphors too heavy for ink to hold, Frank charges headlong into a war of words ? one that will end with fire, ink, and a final truth too big to fit between margins.
From the mind of Frankfort Petersén, Book 14 of the Frank Peniston Mysteries is a darkly comic pulp satire about fame, betrayal, and the dangers of letting someone else write your story.
