The Hector Lassiter novels (ten of them, including HEAD GAMES) frequently incorporate real people.
All of that carries over into HEAD GAMES, THE GRAPHIC NOVEL, coming Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017 from First Second Books.
At its darkly comic and Tex-Mex heart, the story of HEAD
GAMES turns on an all-too-real Yale University Secret Society dubbed “Skull &
Bones” and its rumored collection of the plundered bones of the infamous.
Skull & Bones is equally infamous for churning out
politicians—several of them including vexing presidents such as William Howard
Taft or “Lubb” as he was known to fellow Bonesmen, many senators (a certain Prescott Bush and John Kerry), and media moguls including
Henry Luce or “Baal,” the dude who launched Time Magazine, for instance.
Most directly and tantalizingly tied to all that skullduggery,
is the Bush family dynasty.
Yes, those Bushes. At least three generation of ’em were so-called
“Bonesmen.”
The aforementioned U.S. Senator Prescott Bush (“Magog," son George H.W. Bush (“Poppy”
and the 41st U.S. president) and George W. Bush, AKA “W.,” AKA “Bush
43,” AKA “Temporary.”
Here’s how some of George W’s participation in HEAD GAMES
THE GRAPHIC NOVEL (now newly available as of Tuesday from First Second Books in
mostly visual format) plays out directly or indirectly, courtesy of some short
excerpts and bits of dark data gleaned from the original 2007 novel of HEAD
GAMES:
--A man named Emil Holmdahl pillaged Pancho Villa’s grave in
the Panteon de Dolores boneyard and
stole Pancho’s head back in February of 1926, purportedly doing so under hire
by Yale (and Skull & Bones) alum, Prescott Bush, to display in the S&B
trophy cabinet in the fraternity’s spooky masoluem like meeting space dubbed “The
Tomb.”
--Prescott also allegedly directly participated in the theft
of Geronimo’s skull for S&B’s trophy cabinet, too, where it may remain to
this day.
--The Bush family, particularly in the case of George H.W.
Bush, were movers-and-shakers in American intelligence circles, primarily via
the CIA.
--As various Bushes post-Prescott (AKA, George and George
Jr.) sought higher office, according to various news reports, irksome law suits were
strategically filed to try and get back some famous heads and hands.
Other news reports in recent years claimed skulls were quietly
returned to the Apaches and certain Mexicans to try and dampen down possible
stories of Bushes and grave robbing/head thefts.
And so it goes…
NEXT TIME: RODOLFO FIERRO
And THIS allegedly
went down two months after HEAD GAMES THE NOVEL debuted in 2007.
THE HECTOR LASSITER SERIES, AS PUBLISHED BY BETIMES BOOKS:
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