logline: A down and out NY artist is given god-like power of life and death over an unsuspecting city.
His name is Billy Rowe. Yesterday he was just another tragically talented loser the city had chewed up and spat back down on the streets. Billy came to NEw York with dreams of stardom, and found only a nightmare of obscurity. Frustrated and downtrodden, disgusted with his own failure, Billy spends his days living in Bowery squalor, his ambition skittering away like the cockroaches running up his tenement walls. His roommate can't cover the overdue rent. His girlfriend has no more patience for self-pity. It seems that things can't get any worse.
Until the night Billy witnesses a murder in the street below his window: a young woman, knifed again and gain and left to die, her blood gleaming under the streeetlight's glare. The killer flees into the shadows. And Billy watches, paralyzed with fear, until it's too late to do anything but scream.
When the police come, their contempt is palpable. And when they leave, Billy is ashmaed. In a fit of despair, he prays for help, for guidance… for a sign. And like a miracle, it comes: as the mysterious stranger named Christopher. Christopher has come with a message: of the power Billy has, if he will but lay claim to it.
Billy thinks Christopher is crazy… until he ralizes that suddenly he feels no pain. Billy can heal the sick, or clean up the mess of his life. Or the mess of the city's savage streets. Yesterday Billy Rowe was just another nobody. Now he has the Power. Now the city has nothing to fear. Nothing but Billy Rowe…
Professional Reviews
From Douglas E. Winter, author of RUN and FACES OF FEAR:
"Brash, bold, and bloody... a razor-sharp joyride into the dark alleys on Manhattan... and the darker sidestreets of the soul." -- Douglas E. Winter
From T.E.D. Klein, author of THE CEREMONIES:
"Slam-bang no-holds-barred horror for those with stout hearts and strong stomachs." -- T.E.D. Klein
From George A. Romero. director of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD:
Skipp & Spector give you the worst kind of nightmares." -- George A. Romero
Chris has been fostered at the Crowley boot camp since he turned seven. At sixteen, he is finally ready to run away because his foster father is an abusive person who works Chris and the other children to the point of exhaustion. All he has left of h
The fortunate inherit riches, prestige, positive notoriety. Those not so lucky bear legacies filled with poverty, infamy or, worse yet, the unhinged insanity and murderous urges of their ancestors.
