Bestselling Author Eric Madeen Offers Free Ebook of 'Massage World' for Holiday Season

Bestselling author Eric Madeen has announced his latest novel, 'Massage World', will be available at no charge in ebook form on December 13 and 14 at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Eric-Madeen/author/B08VGRNJVW?, just in time for the Holiday season. Books are the ideal Holiday present as they can offer both escape and enrichment, providing readers with a chance to explore new worlds, ideas, and perspectives. They can convey deep emotions, inspire creativity, and spark meaningful conversations - a gift tailored to individual tastes. The act of gifting a book shows care and consideration, allowing the giver to share a cherished story or a valuable lesson that can resonate with the recipient for years to come.

'Massage World' is a multicultural thriller that dives deep into both sides of the massage industry, and throughout you'll marvel at the unravelling of both sides. From the get-go you'll be struck with the force of that ambiguity, each side repelling each other like magnets thus making for a read with conflict galore, exceeding reader expectation and thus creating narrative drive, a kind of drive that's hell on massage tables' wheels throughout and at times laugh out loud hilarious. As the global demand for massage therapy skyrockets, from luxurious spas to discreet outcalls, one ambitious therapist, Ingrid Swanson, dares to open Massage World, a grand health spa, defying the local underworld kingpin.

Enter Jack Cobb, a ruthless massage parlor lord determined to seize control of Ingrid's business through a series of illicit 'massage wars,' aided by a crooked undercover vice cop soliciting 'extras.' The chaos escalates as a media frenzy erupts following a dramatic police raid, sparking neighborhood protests and the crackle of soooo much more. A fearless female biker gang figures in the ending, riding their rice rocket Yamahas and Hondas up the grandiose stairs of Massage World then roaring up another floor, then the hellacious chase. Your being smitten with this Dionysian nightmare, clashing as it does with those on both sides of the tracks, be they crystally (holistic) or oily in a read you'll find zesty and informative as in what goes down or doesn't in the sliding signifier of Massage World, draped or the heck with the drape.

'Massage World' has received rave reviews from readers. Larry McCaffery, author notably of Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors and former Professor of English and Comparative Literature at SDSU, said it combines gritty realism, lurid sensationalism, and darker-than-black comedy to conjure up a phantasmagoric vision of a world in pain, so earthquaking powerful and fresh it is, I've never read anything quite like it, not even close. William Luvaas, winner of a Huffington Post Book of the Year award, called it a sizzler of a thriller bursting with eccentric energy. Harold Jaffe, Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing and Literature at San Diego State University and former Editor of Fiction International, described it as very cinematic with a canny and calculated construction, a really high-octane potboiler with motion and emotion, exotica and erotica from SoCal to Japan and back, conflict galore, kinkiness with and without aromatic oils.

The ebook version of 'Massage World' will be available December 13 and 14 at no charge at Amazon. Eric Madeen's other works include the bestselling travelogue 'Asian Trail Mix: True Tales from Borneo to Japan,' which scales down the sprawl of Asia by focusing on the unique and revelatory in gemmy prose, showing up close and personal the razzmatazz of novice monks at play in northern Laos, the bonding with hustling pedicab drivers in Ho Chi Minh City, the rainforests blazed on gutsy treks across Borneo and Thailand's Elephant Island and novel things Japanese. Another work, 'Water Drumming In The Soul,' is a fiery tale set in steamy equatorial Africa where Peace Corps volunteer David Fields is on mission to build a medical dispensary in a village where spells are cast on enemies and fear of a geek-shaman reigns. 'Tokyo-ing!' presents a trio of tales chiming through the world's largest megalopolis, while 'Tennis Clubbed, Snubbed and Rubbity-Dub Dubbed' is set in historically rich Yokohama where the wicked shiver of the tennis snub in the postmodern present pits David Adams against a puffed-up xenophobic tyrant who rules over the courts of a club that has as its anthem, ironically, the promotion of international friendship.