Bad Consequence: Tales of an Amish Samurai

Oh no, not again. Yes, again. Jon Ketzner returns to America’s bookshelves and digital libraries with Bad Consequence, tales of an Amish samurai. Following in the wake of his successful short story collections…Hillbilly Anthology (2023) and Where’s That Bastard Owen?...and other yarns (2024) …Ketzner’s new novel follows the journey of Amish maiden Bethquinn Clark from her Rumspringa to becoming the top wet-works specialist at the National Security Agency. From bonnet and apron to Heckler & Koch.As Quinn Clark takes on bullies of all ilk, she uses her formidable skill set to serve her country and her unusual genetic imperative to, you know, make daddy proud and bad guys pay. It’s complicated. As with all Ketzner reads, the tales of Quinn’s adventures are engaging, witty and often poignant. The writing is crisp and sharp, the dialogue wry and the narrative arcs full of surprises. Ketzner intends for this book to be a fun read, and he succeeds brilliantly.Ketzner fancies himself the “Grandma Moses of twenty-first century American letters, capturing the naïve primitivism of an old person with too much unstructured playtime.” Whatever. The counter-intuitive tales of an Amish lady going all badass on America’s enemies, foreign and domestic, take genre tropes and twist them into amusing and clever stories that are richly satisfying, even to someone who is not a typical reader of such nonsense. Anyone who hates bullies will enjoy reading of their fates in these pages as they meet the bad consequence of their evil choices. Read more