M3x1(0

During the 1988 financial crisis in Mexico, even a mentally ill homeless American kid could live like a king. Book Three of the Psychotic Break Series takes Ethan south to Mexico. At the same time that Ethan is healing from his recent trauma, he is sowing the seeds of another disaster. The deeper into Mexico he journeys, the more he learns about who he is, what he likes, where he belongs, and what makes him feel better. Discarding psychiatric medicine, he self-medicates through the many types of alcohol, legal and illegal drugs he finds on his journey. Along his path, he meets Tae Kwan Do surfers, salary men, a shaman, several well-connected witches, a neurotic boxer and a romantically challenging clairaudient rich kid with a penchant for causing trouble.

Ethan grows and gains a more mature understanding of his own sexual identity and the crippling fear that prevents him from expressing it fully. Like any classic picaresque novel, he returns from his journey a changed man. M3X1(0 peels away the layers of shame and fear that shrouded Ethan in San Francisco,. He is free from one demon, only to meet a new and more dangerous one in a banana-flavored bottle.