Ballard, a part-time mail-order private detective, confronts the mystery behind an attempt on his life and in the process plumbs the very nature of reality.

Also starring:

Pamela—a bartending tarot card reader

RC—a tortured graphic novelist

Joe—a street rabbi and his golem

Pascal—a no-nonsense police inspector prone to hallucinatory insights.

Mix in a pack of wild dogs, a blues-picking Cambodian baker, and a tower that is approximately two miles tall and you have the supernatural novella that is BALLARD motor court.

The living creatures ran & returned.