Ambitious and contemporary in scope, American Renaissance enters the literary arena as an upmarket “Supernatural-spy-thriller,” weaving in art history, parody, and politics with a philosophical bent.

It has the ability to intellectually engage as well as hilariously entertain on widely differing levels. At once achieving a literary tone at times reminiscent of works as distinct as “The Sympathizer” (the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction), Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” – or the commercial instincts of “The Davinci Code” – it also brings a philosophical depth which at times evokes perennial classics such as “A Confederacy of Dunces” or “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.”

Part spy novel and part murder mystery critique of the Post-Modern art market set in 1990s Paris, the novel is both a finely polished action-driven up-market international thriller as well as a meaty intellectual romp about the plight of the modern artist living in the spiritual and religious vortex at the turning point of the millennium.

The full story comprises Books 1, 2, and 3 set in Paris. (Each volume or book section may be read separately or as a unified longer novel-memoir many years in completion.)