The story opens with a bang as we meet young Sean Jordan. All is well until tragedy occurs.
Fast forward, Sean and his best friend Doug are out having a few beers celebrating. Sometimes being festive has consequences as Doug's fallout from his Mardi Gras reveling shows.
New Orleans, America's original sin city. Cashing in on the decadence makes Mardi Gras a cash cow. When events threaten the safety of tourists just before the Big Easy gets easier, ranks close. They need a scapegoat and they need one, now.
The story has an underlying discussion of the controversial topic of sex offenders. In many ways overusing the term bullying makes it ineffectual so does the blanket use of the term sex offender combined with the sex offender registry sets up problems. Some of the instances highlighted in this book would make a person want to eat their gun.
Doug is a sex offender for public indecency charges during Mardi Gras.
Sean is a sex offender at eighteen for.... you'll have to read to find out for yourself.
There's new kid in town, and he's started a new game.
Talk radio, the abyss of humanity stirring the sh*t pot. I'm not a fan of entertainment journalism, frankly it's hard to find anything that approaches real journalism today in the media circus world of "We shovel until you push back from the table and still keep shoveling". In the more must be better mindset, LaGrange takes veteran talk radio Breneaux's conservative rhetoric one notch higher--Let's say the consequences are lethal.
Needless to say, when one tries to wag the dog and it bites, zero sympathy.
The city's ablaze with a rising body count and explosions. Mardi Gras around the corner and the city brass needs the situation dealt with, yesterday. Pressure. So many people under it, and cracks appear.
The pace steadily grows. Tension tightening with each chapter. Relentless and hunted. The last hundred pages had me glued to the book. I could easily see this as a movie, though the frank discussion and approach to sexuality defies mainstream studios and main street readers. This book highlights the importance of having a discussion about sex rather than relegating it to spectacle, and separating natural from psychopathy.
Overall, a nightmare thriller with a political agenda.
"Entertainment ends where vigilantism begins."
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