Yanapop

YANAPOP, Inc. creates games, films, books, and other entertainment for Young Adults, New Adults, and Participating Older Persons around the world. In Los Angeles for his interview, Martin (age 21) meets a gorgeous young production assistant named Chlo Setreal (21). Chlo guides him through his interviews and takes a special interest in the handsome young applicant. Martin and Chlo fall madly and instantly in love that same day.Martin returns to San Diego, two hours south, to await results. All he can think of is Chlo , wishing for any excuse to go back and see her as soon as possible. Chlo is thinking the same up in L.A. With a little bad karma, their wish comes true. No sooner has Martin arrived back home, than he receives a call from Chlo in LA. She has been in a car accident, is stuck in her apartment with one leg up in a cast, and desperately longs for her dashing hero Martin to come hold her hand.Martin gallantly hops in his car and heads north, just as a tremendous Pacific Ocean storm begins to pelt San Diego. That's just the beginning of a hair-raising adventure, a nightmare of epic proportions, as courageous and undaunted Martin Brown strives to make it to Los Angeles (or Lost Alienopolis) at any cost. What should be a two-hour drive turns into a Homeric Odyssey lasting a seeming eternity...Like most John Argo feats of high imagination (novels, stories), this one starts out deceptively calm. It's the calm before the cyclone. When the hammer comes down, you'll know it. Nothing will separate you from this novel, especially when the speedometer is stuck on "blur" and you won't be able to sleep or eat because you'll be so anxious to learn what happens next. That's how a real thriller should be.Like Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, YANAPOP is a bizarre, Saturnalian plunge into the underground - a wildly imaginative, streamlined doomsday machine that never stops for a second until the last desperate, manic breath. Martin becomes Odysseus in search of Chlo as he pursues the goddess of his dreams. He becomes Pynchon's lead character (Oedipa) in pursuit of the nightmare secreted in the engine that drives Amerika - and the universe. Or whatever. It's totally donuts all the way. You'll love the most amazing romp you will ever read.Martin goes from a mild-mannered student or reporter to a comic book hero and an avenger in the mythological landscape of Southern California at its most ingenious extremes. Just when you think you have finally swum ashore, be prepared - the next merciless tide in this air-conditioned nightmare is already sweeping you back out to sea.YANAPOP is a yarn for lovers of The Crying of Lot 49 and for viewers of Martin Scorsese's After Hours. Think also of films like The Last Seduction (starring Linda Fiorentino) or National Lampoon's Vacation, or Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis in The Out-Of-Towners film. YANAPOP is the next great thing on that classic list.