A Crash Course On the Anatomy of Robots

Gripping action-adventure, travel fiction at its most alluring, the high-insight chronicle of a rootless spirit’s search for grounding thru the minefield of terror that is the Post-millennium: Kent Evans’ A CRASH COURSE ON THE ANATOMY OF ROBOTS marks the arrival of a novelist whose impressive literary gifts are matched only by his mainstream narrative powers.

Damien Wood’s path to adulthood in the last decade of the 20th century seems delineated by astonishingly effortless success – creatively, financially, and sexually. And yet his half-Asian lineage with its inherent and irreconcilable cultural clashes is coupled with the inability to be affected both within and around him by people and circumstances. Hurling himself with abandon from place to place and from one hollow commitment to another has absolutely no existential impact on him. Damien Wood is a robot convincingly painting the self-portrait of a daredevil artist as a young man.


Then, the century turns. As Damien’s mother dies after a long and agonizing illness and 9/11 inaugurates a new reign of global terror, the full spectrum of Damien’s emotions, from desire to despair, begin to emerge unbidden. These birth pangs of humanness will send him to Asia on a mordantly comic, frighteningly dark odyssey through Southeast Asia in the company of an expatriate colony with too little to lose, including values –until the violence which is the 21st Century’s signature come to claim him as its own: no longer a robot, Damien Wood has become a wanted man...
Consummately suspenseful, compulsively readable, at once approachable and ambitious, A CRASH COURSE is an embarrassment of riches for everyone who loves a great read.

The original soundtrack for A Crash Course On the Anatomy of Robots was written and recorded at On Studio in Guanajuato, Mexico. The album will be available on iTunes prior to the release of the novel and come free as a companion piece with the Kindle version.