Prelude to a Scream

A riveting new novel by the author of "Lethal Injection". After a visit to San Francisco's Tenderloin District, where pleasures are simple and cheap, Stanley Ahearn awakens to find himself zipped into a sleeping bag, left for dead . . . and missing a kidney. When he learns that there's something wrong with his remaining kidney, Stanley finds himself on the street with a new perspective: revenge.