Red Patterson is a TV psychiatrist, a video force, and a famous healer. His newest patient, Curtis Newns, is an artist with a damaged soul. Red is so intrigued by Curtis that he seeks to separate the artist and his wife and claim Curtis’s creative talent as his own. He decides to hold troubled, talented Curtis in his desert estate, where the macabre secrets of Red’s life are waiting to be unearthed. Set in the San Francisco Bay Area and the California desert, this is a story of love pitted against corruption—the essential battle of our time.
When his painting, Skyscape, perishes in a fire, Curtis Newns develops artist's block. So his wife seeks help from Red Patterson, a psychiatrist with his own TV show, only to discover to her horror that he is gaining total control of Newns' mind for nefarious ends. A look at our collective surrender to the power of today's mass media. By the author of Saint Peter's Wolf.
“Arresting climax.” —Publishers Weekly
“The prose is superior.” —Library Journal
