UNCLE MOE AND THE MARTHA'S VINEYARD FRACKERS by James D. Loy is Now Available

To meet author James D. Loy, you'd think he was a mild-manner guy, simply a retired anthropologist who spent a quarter of a century studying the social behavior of monkeys.

Turns out, these days he writes about characters who are funnier than ... well, a barrel of monkeys.

In his latest novel -- Uncle Moe and the Martha's Vineyard Frackers -- he picks up where his last book left off. Fish Food was the story of a quirky man and his pet piranha. Here, we follow Uncle Moe as he challenges a group of petroleum engineers set on fracking the coast of Martha's Vineyard.

"He could happen," Jim Loy shrugs.

As Loy describes the story, "Moe Thibault is a lovable octogenarian who sometimes thinks he's Jacques Clouseau and who's convinced he once had an identical twin. While living out his widower's retirement in upstate New York, Moe is sent an obituary from Martha's Vineyard with a photo of his apparent Doppelganger, a man named Leroi Uxem. Could this have been his long-lost brother?

"The rest of Moe's story might have read 'happily ever after' had it not been for the appearance on the Vineyard of energy prospectors intent on setting up a fracking operation. As a Senior Richter Minister of the Church of Seismology, Moe considers fracking to be a sin against the Earth and God -- and so he begins a campaign to stop the frackers before they can make a shambles of the island. His wacked-out associates include the owner of a sex-obsessed monkey. But the question is, can Uncle Moe and the monkey foil the frackers?"

If you like irreverent stories with zany characters, Uncle Moe and the Martha's Vineyard Frackers just might be a book for you.

You can find out by downloading the book fromAbsolutelyAmazingEbooks.com ... or from Amazon.com ... or from Barnes&Noble.com.

Uncle Moe and the Martha's Vineyard Frackers is only only $3.99 ... less than the cost of a bag of peanuts. And the 6" x 9" paperback edition can be purchased at $14.95.

Jim Loy was educated at the University of Tennessee (BS) and Northwestern University (MA, PhD). From 1974-2010 he taught physical anthropology at the University of Rhode Island, where he studied monkeys. In the mid-1990s, however, unable to think of anything else he wanted to know about monkeys, Jim shifted his research interests to writing a biography of Charles Darwin's wife.

As one acquaintance put it, "If not studying monkeys, he studied the wife of a monkey's uncle."

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