| STORY DESCRIPTION This thriller is told in the first person through the diaries of the two principal characters; Mike, 16 and homeless and Jack, 23. Mike is unwittingly recruited into a boy-brothel but rescued from it by Jack, the personal assistant to the evil Sutherland, who runs the illegal operation. Seeing a chance to escape, Jack takes Sutherland's money and evidence against his dangerous employer. With Mike, he flees across Europe in a desperate bid to outsmart Sutherland. Living now in a half fantasy half reality, Mike describes his adventures and his feelings for the gay guy who has just rescued him. As Jack witnesses Mike coming to terms with his situation he starts to fall for the lad. But then he starts to wonder: is Mike all he seems to be? He has been talking in his sleep, he sees vampires and says that he has killed someone. And then Mike gets rid of the only evidence that can save their lives and Jack realises that he has leapt from he frying pan and into?But as you read the diaries you will start to wonder whether it isn't Jack who is the one living in a fantasy world. And which one would you trust? |
