Carnifex Mardi Gras Author:John F. Carr Carnifex Mardi Gras is a science fiction novel that takes place in the last decades of the 21st Century. Roald Vallen -- big time holotape director on the skids -- will do anything to make his way back to the top again. When Vallen infiltrates the mysterious Jackson Hole enclave, he runs head-on into the greatest challenge of his c... more »areer -- The Crying Clown Rites. The question now becomes not whether he will make his expose or not, but his own survival!« less