Books with author George Mendoza

A star athlete in a wealthy family, Michael Seymour has it all, until his world crashes down. After a track injury reveals an incurable disease, his girlfriend leaves him and his behavior leads to his best friend’s murder. Then, he is asked not to even attend the funeral. As Michael runs from his fears, he passes through a magical gate into a bizarre world that leads to a fantastic journey. He becomes The Spirit Man but is captured and taken to a city in eternal ruin. After breaking his cycle of revenge and hate in this perverse city, he finds himself on a pilgrimage along with thousands of others who look to him as a leader. Michael’s picaresque voyage, where self-delusion collides with the hard truths of life, leads to self-realization but also to the edge of death, and then home again, where he must face the problems he left. Journey of the Spirit Man, Book One of the Wizards Fight Funny series, is a mind-expanding exploration which defines the struggle and the triumph of the human spirit within us all.

An older and wiser Michael Seymour leads a rich, full life, with trusted friends and successful work. But his various enterprises have begun to feel burdensome. Seeking rest and spiritual rejuvenation, he sets out on a road trip with his friend and the head of his personal security, though the two of them can’t know that they are headed for a rendezvous with a disgruntled psychopath on a killing spree. As Michael lies dying on a restaurant floor, he once again crosses over into the bizarre fantasy world he once inhabited.This time, however, it is beset by violence and war. After feasting with an army of dwarves, Michael is killed yet again, only to return again to awareness in the desert. Here, he encounters a sentient glowing orb and a magical book that gives him hope both for his own survival and for the future of mankind, and expands his sight. After more terrible battles, Michael awakens on the shores of a crystal sea where he meets a magical woman. Together, they will journey to a wall that may hold the secret of how to end suffering and shame.Dream Traveler continues the remarkable Wizards Fight Funny series with lasting lessons about the power of integrity and the meaning of loyalty through Michael’s struggles to understand the depths of his own spirit.

In Heart of the Spirit Man, Michael Seymour awakens in a hospital and immediately seeks to leave the world behind. Helped by Lohman the Janitor, Michael escapes and heads into the mountainous surroundings. After finding a great yellow stone-like monument, Michael is attacked by Lord Striker. Striker rips out Michael’s heart and leaves him dying, calling upon the Spirit Man to confront him and win back his heart. As Lord Striker vanishes to the land of Shook, the Spirit Man awakens and follows him. Michael the Spirit Man ventures through many strange landscapes, tormented by the laughing Lord Striker, who shakes Michael’s heart at him in a great glass jar. Michael encounters the wizard Lazaro Hitchcock, a strange jolly man, who directs Michael to seek the Garden of Two Deaths, where Stryker keeps the hearts he has taken.On the way, Michael meets the beautiful and sharp-tongued Ace Solitaire. Ace becomes Michael’s guide. She is also, he realizes, more than she seems. After their capture, Ace disappears and Michael must venture forth to save his own heart and perhaps to save Ace, too. Grappling with Stryker’s attacks as well as the feelings of love he’s beginning to feel for Ace, Michael must regain his heart before he can return to his own world. But will he find Ace again? And can she follow him to his world? Or is she really, as he suspects, the Spirit Woman

Michael Seymour is the Spirit Man. But what does that mean to Michael in a land that is slowly dying? Death and destruction or something more?The Spirit Man means everything to the Dream Tripper for reasons that she isn’t willing to share and that he can’t remember.With her help, he finds out more about the past that shoved them into endless war as they run across friends and foes in a land where the sun refuses to set. Trip and Michael search for a god and find a pair of mischievous twins that shake things up in unexpected ways.Who will survive this journey and make it to the end as Michael fights destiny, demons, and the growing bonds of a ragtag group? Find out in Book Four of the Wizards Fight Funny series: Legend of the Spirit Man.

When the clown with the laughing red moons under his sad, white-ringed eyes gave Herman his big black collapisible hat he said, bowing with a sun-yellow flower suddenly popping out of the nape of his neck: "YOu may have my hat, Herman, but once you place it on your head you must never take it off or else everyone will know what you are thinking." when Herman wakes up it is all a dream.