If you have enjoyed the ebook 'Who was oreithyia?' then you should find this book interesting. The character who forms the backbone of the narrative is none other than Joe Magee - nicknamed 'Jomogee'. Joe Magee an entrepreneur extraordinaire and compulsive philanderer who spends his live subverting the very idea of Order as something which serves the Common Good. Exerpt: '.......If we had to choose a patron divinity or daemon for Joe Magee then Hermes would be most qualified to fill this role. Hermes is the divine trickster, the god of boundaries, the god of the transgression of boundaries, the god or patron of merchants, traders, thieves, herdsmen, commerce, roads, trickery, sports, athletics and graves. Hermes moves freely between worlds of the divine and the mortal, he is the conductor of souls into the afterlife or underworld. Aphrodite the goddess of love and beauty rejected the advances of Hermes. Hermes did not relent on his desire to have Aphrodite, he went as far as to seek the help of Zeus to seduce Aphrodite. Did Hermes succeed in seducing Aphrodite? I leave that for the reader to find out. I will not tell nor will I show. Let the reader deduce for him or herself......' And so I left Quinn's home carrying the box filled with all kinds of secrets, imponderables and intangibles mingled and blended with indiscernibles, to my car. I had been given the task of unsealing and making public the secret lives of Quinn, Gabriella, and Raizel in the world of fiction. This was going to be my first work of fiction after a life time of procrastination, now this box which I carried to my car contained everything that I needed in order to write a novel. As a son of a miner, I was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. I grew up in the East Rand mining town of Boksburg. I matriculated from Boksburg High School. After high school, I was conscripted into the South African Defence Force for compulsory national military service when I was 17 years old. After my military service, I went to the University of the Witwatersrand. After graduating with a BSc honours degree I worked for a short period for the Department of Agriculture in Potchefstroom as an agronomist. As an obligatory member of the South African Citizen Miltary Force, I was called up to do 3-month camps on the 'Border' which was the theatre of the so-called counter-insurgency 'Bush War'. In between postgraduate university studies I also worked as a wage clerk on the South African Railways and as a travelling chemical sales rep. In my career as an academic, I was a molecular biologist at the University of the Witwatersrand, where I lectured courses in microbiology, molecular biology, biotechnology and evolutionary biology. On the research side, I was involved in genomics, and plant and microbial biotechnology. I also conducted research into the genomics of strange and weird animals known as entomopathogenic nematodes. I retired in 2019, however, I am currently an honorary professor at the University of the Witwaterand and I also work as a research writing consultant for the University of Johannesburg.
