When A Psychopath Falls In Love [Paperback]

Herbert Gold's new novel is a funny, sad romp through the San Francisco he has staked out as his primal territory, filled with flimflam artists, lost summers of love and, most of all, fathers on the run, looking for a little bit of mercy and poetic meaning to their lives.  Jerome Charyn, Author

In the course of an impressive career as a writer, Herbert Gold has demonstrated many gifts, among them his talent for making high drama of ordinary events, ordinary people.  Chicago Tribune Book World

Herbert Gold gives his stories a wry, bright air of wonder  he is a born storyteller.  New York Times

One of the most gifted writers in America.  Detroit News

The intriguing new story from prizewinning author Herbert Gold, his twentieth novel in more than six decades, takes us on a journey of lost souls seeking attachment, revenge and redemption at the edge of San Francisco Bay.

When impoverished court translator Dan Kasdan lets lawyer and con artist Ferd Conway suck him into a shady property deal in Haiti, hes unprepared for the life-changing complications that follow. First, an unknown daughter has just turned up at Dans door in the Tenderloin, nineteen years after a forgotten encounter in the Summer of Love. She, her half-employed husband and their disabled baby son need his care, attention and cash. All this just as Dans swollen prostate is confronting him with his own mortality.

Its bad enough when his cohort manipulates Dan into a love affair with Petal, a young woman his daughters age. But when Ferd starts pursuing Dans daughter as lover and would-be father figure, Ferds sleazy disloyalty changes Dan forever.

If a psychopath really can fall in love, it had better not be with the wrong person. That could lead to murder among old friends.