The Counter Pharma-Terrorist & The Rebound Queen

Francois Bereaud

In The Counter Pharma-Terrorist & the Rebound Queen , François Bereaud channels the vulnerabilities and possibilities of youth on the brink of adulthood. Readers will find themselves rooting for siblings Walter and Claire as they navigate unfamiliar terrain, run from heartache and clamber toward first love.

--Melissa Flores Anderson, author/journalist


François Bereaud’s stories skillfully investigate the odd edges of reality, guiding readers through quiet collisions of confusion and insight. The characters are lost, yet find their ways toward points of tentative resolution, with or without knowing it. Bereaud is a careful prose stylist, uncompromising in his insistence on making the world stumble into significance.

--Stephen-Paul Martin, author of The Ace of Lightning


At first blush, The Counter Pharma-Terrorist & the Rebound Queen reads like parallel coming-of-age stories; two young adult siblings thrust into unfamiliar environments, laden with emotional challenges unlike what they've experienced before. As their individual tales unfold, however, the onion layers of their internal processes do as well. Rife with young love and subsequent anguish, sweet sentiment moves alongside sharply poignant observations of the world we live in to take you back and move you forward.

--Tiffany M Storrs, Editor in chief, Roi Fainéant Press