The End of the River

A story about good versus evil beginning in the 1970s. The story starts in Albany, New York, on the west bank of the Hudson River. An older eccentric editor is the mentor to a young man who wants to be a writer. Both characters are gay. They stand in the glass enclosed tower of the mentor's Victorian townhouse which has a view of the ice covered Hudson River in the distance. The mentor tells the writer, if he really wants to write, he needs to go to the end of the river where he will find his stories. He instructs him to, "sling hash and dodge bullets on Forty-Second Street." He tells him to explore the underbelly of life. The young writer encounters a bohemian world filled with love and depravity. A darker story unfolds when the writer begins to suspect that his friend in Albany may be a serial killer. His adventures in New York City bring him into a world where corruption and decadence are mainstreamed into popular culture.