Circus Absurdus is a fast-paced environmentally themed fiction novel that addresses issues of current, ongoing concern. From the start, the story proceeds with a wild police chase, and never loses that edge. Though the novel is set in the sixties and seventies, its characters relate to a hippie persona from any era. Environmental concerns are not often depicted in literature, and for whatever reason the science community has yet to harness art to communicate important messages. In a bold debut novel, author Robert Tyler has created a bridge between art and science. Throw in a young woman’s murder in a remote, rural hippie haven, added to a bumbling deputy with whom the suspect had been a prisoner of war in Vietnam, and this psychedelic yet somehow clear-eyed novel is sure to keep the reader on the edge of their seat. Highly recommended!