+ House of Pain is a story about fast boys, passionate women, rough sex, hard drugs, yoga, and human consciousness; about finding peace and love in a sick but beautiful world. This novel draws you down a dark path that leads from the unexpected intersection of yoga and western medicine to the simple truth of a perverted and most kinky universe where pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. When Sim, nicknamed S&M by his friends, takes the deeply compassionate bodhisattva vow to end human suffering, at the same time as a vow of celibacy, the Universe roars with laughter and begins...

Albert Einstein was wrong when he said: "God doesn't play dice with the world." The Universe is a serious Gamer. In this sequel to House of Pain, Sim plays for both sides: restraint and licentiousness; pain and pleasure. Is kinky sex the shortcut to Enlightenment? Sim, aka S&M, is betting on it and he's all in In the passionate pursuit of Divine Perfection, he dives headfirst into the deep end of trouble, Tantric sex, mayhem and brotherly love to prove his point. Sequestered on the top of the world in his private Sunrise rehabilitation center-an intimate lunatic asylum, strip club, casino...

Pain is a swift and evolutionary teacher, Sim's preferred short-cut to enlightenment. 'Pleasure is overrated, man. You can never get enough. Now pain-that's a different animal. You know when you've had enough. It feels very good to stop.' In the darkest of all love letters, De Profundis, Oscar Wilde wrote: 'Pain, unlike Pleasure, doesn't wear a mask'. Love can't be found in the refection of a silver pond anymore than you can find the moon. Dirty Water, the third volume in the House of Pain trilogy, toys with the illusory nature of love. Can it rise from its reflection in the heart of another...