Vonny and his friends were physically and emotionally scarred for life at the hands of a psychopath during a long, deranged weekend when they were teenagers. They never fully disclosed the details. Some things are too horrifying to share. It's now 30 years later and the psychopath is being released from prison, leaving the friends with an important decision to make. Do they carry out the act of revenge they have been planning all these years, or do they try an experimental drug that promises to replace their traumatic memories with harmless ones?

Some people you love to hate. Some people you hate to love. Alex fell in the second category. He was thirty-six years old and never had a job, and he didn't want one. He got by with his brother's financial support. He was a dreamer without a particular dream. He wanted money, fame, and power, and he wanted someone else to give it to him. Alex was a loser, but he had a sense of humor that made him quite irresistible to others. He spun his odd, misguided views of the world with such excitement and cunning wordplay that people couldn't help but root for him to find the success he did nothing to...