Prelude To A Scream: A Novel - Softcover

""Prelude to a Scream" is a take-no-prisoners thriller if ever there was one . . . critics compared San Francisco author Jim Nisbet to James M. Cain, Norman Mailer and Truman Capote." --"San Jose Mercury News" ""Prelude to a Scream" pushes the envelope . . . this is not your ordinary detective story." --"San Antonio Express-News"

It's been years since Stanley Ahearn lost interest in staying alive. Every Friday night, he pays a visit to San Francisco's Tenderloin District, where pleasures are simple and cheap. One night he shares an otherwise deserted bar with a green-eyed woman. Three days later, he wakes to find himself in a sleeping bag, missing a kidney and with something fatally wrong with the one that's left. So Stanley finds a new perspective. If he wants revenge, he has to find the woman with the green eyes. If he wants to live, he has to find a new kidney.