But Sam, just like Franks writing, don’t play by the rules and instead follows his sharp instincts that get him tossed into some serious, deadly trouble. He is a hard drinking, drug induced addict that works for the DEA. Fog City Blues is the first book in an all-new series and follows a man named Sam Devine on the brink of the 9/11 disaster. But now, thanks to the good people at Rothco Press, Frank and his stable of strong characters are back on paper and e-paper alike. With 22 novels to his name, one would think I would have discovered his work sooner. How I had never heard of Frank Lauria before reading Fog City Blues is beyond me, because Frank Lauria can write. You can also hear Frank’s Art Rock band Uncle Frank and the Co-Defendants. Their debut “Lost in the Underground” is available now. Orient, The Seth Papers, Lady Sativa and Blue Limbo and are available via our friends at Open Road Media. Orient book series which includes: Demon Pope, Raga Six, Baron Orgaz, The Priestess, Dr.

In addition to his latest title, Ice City Blues, Lauria’s other works include Fog City Blues, Chinatown Blues, Melody Dawn and the Dr. The result has been described by readers as “Indiana Jones meets Allen Watts” and “Siddhartha meets Sam Spade” with Lauria’s main character mixing eastern mysticism with hard boiled detective sensibilities in his adventures with relic hunters, dangerous women, spies, telepaths and nazis. He’s a Scorpio.Ī contemporary of Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, Frank Lauria uses his beat era influences, along with travel experiences on freighters to Morocco, and decades of research on the roots, forms and rites of occult sciences in Italy and the Middle East to inform the Doctor Orient character. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife, music manager Ellen Smith. When not traveling the world, he’s been a poet, book editor, Broadway and film actor, key welder, social worker, television writer, and lyricist.

degree from Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York. BurroughsĪuthor Frank Lauria was born in Brooklyn, raised in New Jersey, and received his B.S. Frank Lauria has written the most believable Vampire and Werewolf stories I have ever read.” - William S. “In these hypnotically readable books, Doctor Orient, as master of the right-handed path engages in deadly struggles with the focus of evil.

Raga Six by Frank Lauria