Mason's Jar: A Novel
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    [synopsis] => An electrifying mash-up of the western, sci-fi, and horror genres set against a backdrop of the housing, mental health, opioid, and climate crises 		
	Ex–police chief Mason Lowry is hell-bent on retribution. Ten years ago he arrested outlaw biker Clarence Boothe for selling a bad batch of illicit narcotics that killed 37 people. Boothe's gang retaliated by killing Lowry's teenage granddaughter, and ever since Mason has been biding his time, waiting for the moment when he can exact his revenge. But unbeknownst to him, Clarence has been laying plans of his own.		
	In this-all-too-near future, addiction to the drug Euphoral has become epidemic. Withdrawal causes a violent psychosis, and on the night of their leader's release, Clarence's gang unleashes a waking nightmare by withholding its supply. Seeing the city he once swore to serve and protect descending into madness fuels Mason's fury and he launches a one-man assault on Clarence's compound. During the midnight raid, he's saved from certain death by Meghan, a teenage captive with a violent past of her own who may just hold the key to something Mason had thought he'd lost forever: a chance at redemption.		 			Set against a backdrop of the housing, mental health, opioid, and climate crises increasingly affecting so many communities, Mason's Jar upends the classic western revenge tale to create a relentlessly entertaining vision of a man, and a world, teetering on the brink only to find hope in the unlikeliest of places.		 			
	John Jantunen has lived in almost every region of Canada and currently resides in Kingston, Ontario. His first novel, Cipher, was shortlisted for a 2014 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in the Mystery category and No Quarter was nominated for a 2019 Shamus Award.		 			
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•	STEPHEN KING MEETS CORMAC McCARTHY: "A gripping work of speculative fiction set in a spirited landscape that's often neglected or ignored in Canadian literature. Jantunen skillfully compels readers to both empathize with and loathe the people who inhabit this dystopian realm. It's a thrilling novel about outcasts and survivors navigating a harsh world, much in the same vein as works by Cormac McCarthy and Stephen King." - Waubgeshig Rice, bestselling author of Moon of the Crusted Snow on Savage Gerry

		
•	AWARDS: Jantunen was shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Cipher, and No Quarter was nominated for the PWA Shamus Award and longlisted for the ReLit Award.

		
•	TRENDING TOPICS: Set against a backdrop of the housing, mental health, opioid, and climate crises increasingly affecting so many communities, Mason's Jar upends the classic western revenge tale to create a relentlessly entertaining vision of a man, and a world, teetering on the brink, only to find hope in the unlikeliest of places.

		

		
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•	Horror readers and online horror fan community

		
•	Fans of the previous books in the author's Tildon Chronicles

		
•	Fans of Cormac McCarthy's The Road

		
•	Readers of Roberto Bolaño
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