Lunchmeat

Victor Ferraro is a heroic and chivalric knight plucked from the Middle Ages and stuck in late 1990s New Jersey, or so he'd like to believe.

More interested in dreaming up sweeping epics than learning how to subtract, Victor often catches himself staring out the window of his first-grade classroom, imagining battlefields riddled with arrows and orc corpses.

But his new real-life nemesis may be too powerful for Victor to defeat. A Goliath in chestnut top-siders, Pierce Stone wields a weapon more powerful than any battle-ax or broadsword. And Victor soon learns that at his new school, kids like Pierce Stone fight with words. Victor's smattering of Itanglish might not be enough to take on his new enemy, but his obsession with Hell might just save him yet.

Follow Victor, from his impressionable childhood to the formidable years of high school, on his search for Hell―his own ordained quest for the Holy Grail, woven throughout his life like a thread of darkness.

What People Are Saying

“The narrative is laced with humor and readers will enjoy the unique point of view of the protagonist. The author creates suspense and fires up the reader’s interest in Victor by injecting the narrative with a strong sense of mystery. The reader constantly wonders who Victor really is and wants to know more about this kid who feels so out of place. Ben D’Alessio keeps you engrossed in the story and he unveils the heart of the protagonist layer by layer, offering surprises that readers will love. The writing is impeccably good and I loved the formatting, the timely paragraph breaks for dramatic effect, the interesting dialogues, and the world building. Lunchmeat is a work of huge entertainment, a story of adventure that also explores the universe of kids in a great style. The prose is atmospheric and gripping.”
— Romuald Dzemo, Readers’ Favorite