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Oree Joffren, a distinguished professor of anthropology and expert on risky sexual behavior in the gay community, comments that our country is “obsessively lascivious”. We continually think about sex while we are simultaneously conflicted with puritanical tendencies to repress wayward urges.
Benjamin Justice, a one-time prize winning journalist whose career has hit the skids, is hired to write the script for a PBS documentary on “bareback sex”. His assignment is to explore the psyche and motivations of homosexual men who engage in sexual practices, which are destructive to the individual, as well as the gay community at large.
Justice finds himself at risk, but not from unsafe sex: he learns there are ruthless individuals who are desperate to prevent the completion of the project. A producer of the series, Tommy Callahan, is missing and Justice finds Callahan’s shabby motel room ransacked. A videotape revealing the “real life” beating of a transvestite is missing and ultimately the kidnapped producer’s mutilated body is found in the forest. The deeper Justice digs into murder and missing persons, the more he finds himself mired in conspiracies by wealthy scions, corruption in LA politics as well as the police department. Justice struggles with his alcoholism and the death of his beloved Jacques’ from AIDs while recklessly ignoring a typical threat to gumshoes, gay or straight: don’t concern yourself with the dead or you may end up being one of them. The closer Justice gets to the truth, the more he is “at risk” to lose his new career, two new men who want to pursue a relationship with him, his friends, an ultimately, his life. John Morgan Wilson’s skillful writing has earned him the Edgar and Lambda book awards. His new novel RECOMMENDED READING: “Justice at Risk”, a novel by John Morgan Wilson, 1999, Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-49116-6. RECOMMENDED WEBSITE; http://www.crime.com/entertainment/kille... For a video interview of John Morgan Wilson. Go To Page: 1 |
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