Fiction
TJ Altieri's fiction compels readers to reflect on both society and themselves, taking his audience on a narrative journey through layered plots and multidimensional characters. Often fusing genres, his writing juxtaposes perspectives and elicits discourse in a way that is remarkably engaging.
Aside from his most recent novel Lowside Symphony, Altieri has published the archaeology mystery "Foundations", as well as the crime thriller "Controlling Interest", and has works in progress in the genres of science fiction and high fantasy. He considers the factor that drives and unites his stories to be the humanity felt through his characters and how it helps us reflect on our own lives.
Outside of fiction, TJ Altieri has completed historical treatises in archaeology, anthropology, and gender studies. When not writing, he works as a history educator in Connecticut Public Schools and as conservationist working to preserve wildlife, in and out of human care, at Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo.
Hopi biker David Redhawk resists attachments and commitment, but when an unexplained accident imbues him with a mysterious force known as Interverse Energy, he must grapple with his past, his power and his purpose. David is the only one who can counter the elitist machinations of the Composer, a fellow Interverse wielder with a passion for high culture and necromancy. With the help of some unlikely comrades, and the music in his head, David is forced to contend with the Composer’s ever growing undead orchestra before it makes society march to its morbid magnum opus.
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In 2012, a team of archaeologists went to study the past of a mysterious culture. But what they uncovered might just shape the future...for all of us.
Marco (Bev) Bevilaqua is called to the untouched South Pacific island of Ralua to assist renowned archaeologist Dr. Alec Hagan in his excavation. With the help of anthropologist Cora Proll and a versatile team of experts, they set out to study the history of the enigmatic society that lives on the remote island.
When Bev and his colleagues explore native life and dig into its past, they find that their excavation reveals far more than the most valuable artifact or insight. With the tribe weary of outsiders and a ruthless antiquities dealer determined to loot Ralua, Bev and his team race to uncover a hidden past that might just have repercussions for the world far beyond the island.
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Joseph Conklin, a man whose life has been humbled by torture, war and the unabashed greed of others, has established himself as the nondescript head of the shipping conglomerate Hermes International. He has used his relative anonymity to secretly run a powerful syndicate known as Catharsis, under a masked persona labeled by the media as "The Leveler". Considered a terrorist by the government, the Leveler uses his clandestine influence and resources to balance out what he sees as the inequities of society by forcing empathy on the world. In radical ways. Along with disrupting systems of greed and consumerism, he endeavors to elicit real justice by using Catharsis to help those truly in need.
With threats again an ultra wealthy pharmaceutical executive and corrupt politicians, the authorities are forced to answer the Leveler by allocating their best people to the case. Enter Martin Fultons, a dutiful if not slightly jaded G-man, and his partner Jennifer Fallwood, who are determined to get ahead of a suspect who is always ten steps ahead of them.
Fighting the Leveler becomes more than Martin and Jennifer bargained for when they must contend with Conklin's fleet of copter drones, versatile inner circle of associates, and formidable intellect. To make matters worse, the Leveler's "Robin Hood" like philanthropy has put some of the public on his side and made him more than just a controversial figure.
With the brilliant Conklin turning the means of production into the means of destruction and the FBI on his trail, the reader finds themselves in the middle of a battle for society's soul.