Mortal Belladaywic Author:Mark Christensen Mark Christensen's first novel is intended as a lampoon of political bureaucracy and universal corruption. Its hero is Bear Belladaywic, a perpetually soused fellow ''addicted to having things happen to him.'' This 34-year-old attorney from Portland, Ore., is a 6-foot-5 blond ex-athlete gone to epic bloated seed. He hasn't had an innocent client... more » in his four years of practice. He is currently representing Joey Holtzman, the leader of a ''27-piece heavy metal marching band'' - a slack-jawed punk accused of gunning down two narcotics officers during a drug raid. Bear is infatuated with Joey's sister Cindy, a local emergency room nurse and the stoic mother of Bear's illegitimate son. As he researches Joey's case, Bear downs kegs of Blitz beer, seduces nubile receptionists and smashes and abandons luxury vehicles. At one point he maneuvers a Sherman tank, serves time in a country club-style penitentiary and samples Master Smack, a drug so potent it is destined to become ''number three on everybody's list. Right behind air and water.'' The novel peaks at Joey's trial, when Bear is set against his own father, a legendary Oregonian prosecutor and beloved Congressman, ''a Clarence Darrow from 1,500,000 B.C.'' Painted as a grand cartoon of slovenly New Wave machismo bent on both salvaging the planet and remaining drunkenly irresponsible, Bear becomes the center of the book's satirical thrust.« less