A father pleads guilty to a crime he didn't commit in order to reach a killer in prison and avenge his daughter's death.
THE FALL OF JASPER MCCAINE is a 60,000 word literary novel spanning (mostly) the early to late seventies, before the advent of the Internet, DNA testing, or any other modern accouterments of the digital age to aid in the protagonist’s search for justice. It is a story of one man’s harrowing journey and sacrifice to make things right and an intimate portrayal of losing one’s humanity in the process.
In the search for his daughter’s killer, Jasper McCaine will face a corrupt small town sheriff, track down heroin dealers preying on the innocent and guilty alike, cut deals with immoral inner-city gang members, and work for a Chicago crime family, eventually sacrificing his freedom so that he can be incarcerated with the oftentimes cunning and treacherous inmates of a maximum security prison in his quest to get ever closer to reaching the man who took everything away that mattered most to him in this world.