Author Jon Gegenheimer, a New Orleans native, is a litigation lawyer, elected court official, and writer of serious literary fiction. The Canon Code is his third published novel.

The first is The Second Hill (AuthorHouse 2011), an exceptional piece of historical/futuristic fiction that foresaw virtually every malady afflicting today's troubled world: ubiquitous terrorism; rampant moral relativism; absurd political correctness; destruction of our cities and towns by anarchist, Jacobin mobs, and the all-out assault against the Judeo-Christian ethic.

Mr. Gegenheimer's next story, The Griffin Murders (Rosedog Books 2016, Black Lacquer Press 2018), is a straight murder mystery of the same genre as The Second Hill. Beyond a spellbinding surface plot, it features deep character development and strikingly relevant themes. Like The Second Hill, it is a story for the times-written to awaken, delight, educate, and spark conversation.

The Canon Code is a first-of-its-kind literary effort: a new art form-unprecedented in the annals of literature. The reader at some point will wonder: Has Mr. Gegenheimer blurred the line between fiction and fact, as Dickens invariably did; or, is there no line at all? Has he altogether eliminated fiction from the equation? The devoted Dickensian, not to mention all the other avid readers of Western literature, will surely consider a trip to Rochester, Gad's Hill, and London to seek the answers.