Isaac Fietlebaum is a fluent speaker of Yiddish and a Talmudic scholar. But he is not your typical Jewish boy. He was born on the planet Hijdor, and he works as a psychiatrist at the student clinic of the Transgalactic Merchant Marine Academy on the backwater planet of Polmod. Fietlebaum is coerced into a drug war over the illegal jorftoss plant that bestows immortality. The conflict leads him across the galaxy, where he fights not only the unusual mental disturbances of aliens, but also a jorftoss killing virus, and a murderous Galactic Intelligence agent, whose immortality depends on his gaining control over the galaxys last living jorftoss plants. Fietlebaum is driven to defeat this agent, who has kidnapped his grandson. He threatens to kill the boy, Fietlebaum, and the charming schlemiel, Teysoot Motzo, a Janpooran labor leader and hapless crook who accompanies Fietlebaum in his adventures across the galaxy.
About the author
Scott Mendelson is a psychiatrist living and working in Roseburg, Oregon. He is the author of three non-fiction books, Metabolic Syndrome and Psychiatric Illness, Beyond Alzheimer’s: How to Avoid the Modern Epidemic of Dementia, and The Great Singapore Penis Panic and the Future of American Mass Hysteria. Fietlebaum’s Escape is his first novel. In writing the book, he drew from his years of clinic experience in psychiatry, as well as childhood memories of Yiddish wisdom and humor.
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