In his new book A Desperado's Daily Bread, (published by iUniverse) Konrad Ventana throws open the curtain to a perennial drama with a depth of language that can only be described as symphonic. Blazing with eye-opening drama, keen psychological insights, and layers of linguistic pyrotechnics, the reader is at once awed and entertained.

Wade is also a respectable biochemist, in his own outlandish way, and his masterful skills in molecular and genetic manipulations are impressive to say the least. He has somehow managed to isolate four particular genes from the desert cactus known to laymen as peyote and has inserted the genetic constructs into baker's yeast. Wade's creations appear to function as perfectly normal cultures of baker's yeast except, of course, in the presence of exogenous tyrosine or phenylalanine which, when added to the mix, these genetically engineered cells readily convert to the chemical compound mescaline — and they dutifully perform this sanctified biochemical conversion in the wink of an alchemist's eye.

Using the pseudonym Konrad Ventana, literally 'Bold Counsel through a Window,' the author looks behind the scenes of this drama at the ideologies of our modern times and examines the potential for future development.