"The situation has to be desperate to cause a California guy to ride his bike across the Brooklyn Bridge at midnight in a snowstorm. But that's exactly what Jason Keltner was doing because of the phone call he'd received, chilling as the wind he was riding into, frightening as the memories that haunted his nightmares." Jason's friend Zeb, a fellow musician, had opened a music store in Brooklyn and someone had trashed it. The reasons were unclear, but one possibility came to mind: gay bashing. Jason knew the taste of violent prejudice too intimately to do anything but offer help. So he volunteered to be the store's nightwatchman. Helping, under these circumstances, was something he'd done before; it was what brought him together with Robert and then Martin as high school students in California...and what brought Robert to Brooklyn to help Jason - without question, without limits, but with a bitter taste that would never go away.
You know that commercial where a guy in his hotel room is wondering if the little shampoos are really a bribe to get him to give the place a good online review? Yeah. I was trying to mete out the reading of this because who knows when there will be a next Keith Snyder book. I doled it out a little at a time until the bottom of page 197 and then I found myself quoting the guy in the commercial. "Ah! It's working! They got me! It's working!" Couldn't put it down after that. You should pick it up. Keith Snyder should write faster.