J.M. Porup

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The United States of Air (2012)

Food Enforcement Agent Jason Frolick believes in eating air. He struggles to get the food monkey off his back. As part of The Global War On Fat, his job is to put food terrorists in Fat Camp. When a pizza dealer gets whacked in the park across the street from the Thin House...(more)


The United States of Air
The Second Bat Guano War

The Second Bat Guano War (2010)

Rats ate his baby daughter while he partied in a disco. Now Horace "Horse" Mann is a drugged-out expat teaching English to criminals in Lima, Peru. Oh, and doing the odd favor for the CIA. When his Agency contact, Pitt Waters, goes missing, Horse's desperate efforts to find...(more)


Death On Taurus (2011)

On the bullfighting planet of Taurus, in the far distant future, a genetically-engineered race of half-man, half-bull stages ritual blood sacrifices to the gods -- human viewers light-years away. Vizzer, the high priest who presides over the daily slaughter, loathes the fights and wants to end them. When news arrives that the humans have destroyed themselves in an interstellar civil war...(more)


Death On Taurus
The Judas Syndrome

The Judas Syndrome (2009) Two Stanford students on vacation in Colombia join a guerrilla insurgency fighting to legalize cocaine production, and free Colombia from America's tyrannical oppression. They recruit and train other backpackers to carry out a series of bombings...(more)


  • Lonely Planet Colombia

  • Lonely Planet Venezuela

  • Lonely Planet Dominican Republic and Haiti

  • Lonely Planet Caribbean Islands

  • Lonely Planet South America On A Shoestring