The man at the pitiless heart of Swell is solitary and unremarkable, without any substance whatsoever; however, when he is found dead by a beautiful young woman whose passionate desire is to be alone with him, his life is revealed as anything but mundane. Nothing is as it seems. "From the mind of an extraordinary writer." Suzie Grogan He is a submissive boy who drifts into manhood dominated by a mother obsessed with isolating him from the wickedness of Outsiders. She teaches him the art of being invisible in plain sight and devises games where life or death are the only options. In war, the troops in his platoon call him Wraith. The deeper you go, the more you are absorbed into a parallel world of deviant morality, of innocence betrayed and twisted love. You may also come to suspect murder. It is a world where the absurd becomes normality. You must play the game and unlock the riddles to see if you are right to believe what you think you know. The author's prose is evocative of a vintage black and white movie, a romance noir, with stark imagery and poignant drama, drenched with connotation.