Frank Carson is a man who has given up on life after two failed love relationships. After succumbing to heavy cocaine use, he encounters a vision of being delivered to a better place by an evil being that relegates his every move. As he becomes obsessed with the vision, he forfeits his life in the world only to befriend tremendous pain and sorrow. While seeking shelter from the unrelenting streets for the purpose of a slow, private suicide, Carson is drawn to Cowboy, an insane alcoholic who shows him a way back toward the life he once had.
Barry Barnett Keith is a 1983 graduate of The University Of Delaware, and lives in Accokeek, Maryland. He is the author of THE WAITER, and THE CYCLE is his second book in a series of five.