Adrenaline Author:James Robert Baker It begins as a routine trick: two guys on a beach after midnight. Instant attraction, chemical overload, but in the heat of the moment they are interrupted. Brutalized by police, they fight back, a cop dies, and Nick and Jeff are on the run through Los Angeles at its worst. James Robert Baker's cult first novel--originally published under the na... more »me James Dillinger--is at once an anarchist's howl of rage at oppression and the soulless culture of Hollywood, and it is a noir thriller peppered with hilarious vignettes and ironic insight. Fueled by passion, fear, and methamphetamine, Nick and Jeff's odyssey through Southern California is a nightmare of hair-breadth escapes and bizarre encounters with, among others, a decadently decaying movie producer, a corrupt church official, a deranged neurosurgeon, and a psychotic cop; however, Adrenaline surges above the genre of fugitive fiction by casting a clear and wary eye on the disturbing darkness that lies below society's polished surface. It is this more than anything else that makes the story of Nick and Jeff, their love, and their flight, a modern parable of redemption.« less