The Dionysian Alliance: A Novel of Sex, Religion, and Murder - Softcover

Rinella, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0940267233 ISBN 13: 9780940267237

Publisher: Rinella Editorial Services, 2011

Synopsis

Detective Benjamin Kramer's quest to find his long-forgotten Great-uncle Jonathan led him to a secretive attorney in Cincinnati, an esoteric monastic lover, a professional dominatrix, and a murdered temple priestess. Along the way he discovered his family's secret: his mother and her ancestors were Dionysians, members of an ancient, and supposedly defunct, fertility cult that worships Dionysos, the god of wine and ecstasy. From the attractive young monk who teaches him the secrets of Tantric sex to the professional dominatrix who shows him the whip-induced path that leads to visions of gods, Benjamin probes, questions, and discovers a hidden Alliance with immense wealth, power, and influence. When they turn to him to solve the ritualized murder of Chicago's temple prostitute, the verse from the Book of Ezekiel ("And the harlot shall be slain by the sword") is the only clue to the perpetrator. Is it a modern day Salem witch hunt or a Bacchanalian rite gone terribly wrong?

About this title

About the Author:

For more than seventeen years Jack Rinella has been writing about kinky sex. He is the author of The Master's Manual, The Compleat Slave, Partners in Power, Toybag Guide to Clips and Clamps, Becoming a Slave, and Philosophy In the Dungeon, the Magic of Sex & Spirit, The Dictionary of Scene-Friendly Term, and More from the Master. He has been active in the Leather scene since 1983, is a founding member of MAsT-Chicago, a member of the Chicago Hellfire Club, and a former director on the board of the Leather Leadership Conference.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rinella Editorial Services
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0940267233
• ISBN 13: 9780940267237
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320