The Last Mad Lover (Paperback)

This upbeat novel is replete with engaging story lines, intelligent dialogue and provides an ongoing invitation to examine the character of the narrator and his consorts. These pages provide something for everyone -- mystery, romance, nostalgia, sex, mild violence and several surprises. A look inside will take you back to the era of push carts and cobblestones where you will bear witness to the dangerous exploits of an eight-year-old street urchin and his gang of thieves. You will find him again on the run from the law at age sixteen with an exciting but disturbed girl who has used a gun to break out of a juvenile detention center. You will solve the mystery confronting him as a Vista volunteer whose amorous adventures threaten the moral fabric of life in a small Appalachian town. You will experience all the sexy dialogue and intimate details of his stormy east to west coast romance with a flight attendant who falls into his lap during rough weather at thirty-five thousand feet, and you will visit a remote farm house on the west coast of Ireland to watch him grapple with a surprising turn of events in a love affair born and bred on the Internet. It is a story held secret and close for many long years, a tale of some mystery, physical confrontation and intrigue, a yarn woven into life's cold winter clothing, to be worn as pleasure and as protection to banish the chill of ever-present sorrows. It is a simple trail of memory laced with fantasy, to be savored as a cool evening's fire breaks down to the orange glow and gray ashes of early morning.