Adrienne: The Chaos of Desire

Adrienne: The Chaos of Desire, is a historical novel in two parts. Books I and II: The lives of a Basque child, Iniga, the Maquis, Alesandro Otxoa along with the journalist Marcel Fournier, come together against the slaughter of General Ochoa’s Moroccan shock troops during the Asturias miners’ strike of '34 and into the oppression of Franco’s regime in the 1970’s. In Book II: Marcel’s daughter, Adrienne Fournier is at war with the world at the end of the millennium in the ruins of a squandered inheritance.

Adrienne picks up where Couper’s second novel, The Book of Job Revisited, leaves off. Book I: The Maquisard, speaks of an era of chaos that began with the Asturias miners’ strike of 1934 and relationships born of Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Franco Regime of post-war Spain. The violence, intrigue, and betrayal of the era gave birth to the next generation. Book II: The Tyranny of Chaos, continues the story of post-war prosperity and a generation split between the values of their parents and dissipation of drug addiction and nihilism featured in the marriage between the addict, Adrienne Fournier, and Nick Baker, a borderline psychopath. Adrienne courageously struggles with abuse and alcoholism. Kidnapped by a Tijuana drug trafficker, her former lover Max McGee and his fellow cab driver, Jimbo, become involved in a climatic rescue along with her husband, Nick, and godfather, Alesandro.