Junkyard - Satire on American Culture - Earns Rave Reviews

Published in TAPInto January 4, 2024

Mount Laurel Author's Satire Earns

Rave Reviews 

 

Novel pokes fun at contemporary American culture 

 

 


                                                                          James Terminiello, author of Junkyard


Terminiello's new novel Junkyard surveys and satirizes many aspects of contemporary

American culture in a breezy and amusing way.  He tackles everything from

college life to cults to fast food and so far the reviews have been very good. 

Published in England where they still appreciate satire, Terminiello is very American

and a resident of Mt. Laurel.   

Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-terminiello-88456820/ 

Book Synopsis 

A young man, Macklyn Farrago, ventures into a junkyard and encounters a strange

elderly man, Mr. Abbas, who has built a most extraordinary vehicle – a composite

of all vehicles from around the world designed symbolize something wonderful

for humankind. The trouble is… it doesn’t work.  


Charmed, the young man attempts to get the depressed older man some publicity.

In doing so, he inadvertently triggers a world-wide, semi-religious, semi-millennial

craze over the old man, his creation, and his mission — fueled, coddled, manipulated,

and magnified by the grasping media billionaire Sebastian El Dorado, fresh from

launching a planetary fast-food craze. Farrago and Abbas then set out on a cross

country quest to find a man, alien hunter Wyatt Avery Tontine now wracked with

dementia, who may hold the answer for Abbas.  


Dogged and hounded along the way, the pair encounter a chilling ecumenical

getaway, a bizarre meditative garden, a deranged college campus, conniving

descendants of the first Americans, a weekly end-times cult, a museum of mass

killers, a rogue MI6 agent, and, just possibly, true love. Oh, and an

unexpected encounter with a reluctant alien.  


It's mad America in the first half of the 21st Century. 


Selected Reviews: 

https://www.amazon.com/Junkyard-James-Terminiello/dp/1800169329/ref=sr_1_5?crid=MNR745C4VLZT&keywords=James+Terminiello&qid=1695744113&sprefix=james+terminiello%2Caps%2C81&sr=8-5 

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/junkyard-james-terminiello/1144110679 

https://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewtopic.php?t=387779 

Author James Terminiello retired in 2023 after 40 plus years in marketing. He is the 

author of the Caligula's Kitchen series of four novels tracing the life of a fictional chef

in the palace of the mad Roman Emperor Caligula and his successors. Terminiello

has written more than 180 columns and blogs on a wide range of issues ranging from

Donald Trump to the lizards inhabiting Mount Laurel. He is married, a father and

grandfather, and a supporter of all attempts to eradicate autism. His next novel

takes place on a hijacked cruise ship.  

 

 

 

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