“Tricks Gone Bad” available now in paperback or ebook format
“Cunningly-told moments, moored in the misty suspension of consequences required for sex with strangers.”
In the high desert west of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a passionate interlude between two men goes off the tracks. A young journalist for The El Paso Times reports the crime but misses the key questions. Why would a man with a successful career, a home and loving family, risk everything for a casual encounter with a stranger? And why did he have to die?
After covering the Juarez murder, the young journalist is soon embroiled in his own trick gone bad; a betrayal which could cast a permanent shadow over his life. And it’s not the only time the reporter risks personal and professional ruin without asking important questions.
In five interlocking scenes that span 15 years and four cities, author David M. Hancock points a searing white light at a life of gay cruising and deadline reporting. It’s all about adrenalin in these vignettes, whether the reporter is covering a young woman’s murder in Coral Gables or making a 3 a.m. drug run with a Miami Beach go-go boy. Or debating whether to stab a shady character in New York City.
“Tricks Gone Bad” — An erotic tapestry of fact and fiction that begins and ends with a real-life murder in the Chihuahua desert.
