Eric Jerome Dickey has been on my 'To Read' list for awhile as he so often appears on recommendation lists for Romance. Just about to give this up due to the overly enthusiastic reading by Dion Graham, who has real fun with his role. But then his lead character walks up to 'white skirt' and the relationship that follows is intense and so alive, and funny too. I looked up who EJD is and wow, he died in January this year! at 59. What a loss!

He's described as often employing a cast of international characters in his novels and it's true here, where we meet Ethopian Jimmy Lee.

How come there are no other reviews for this novel? The audiobook was released over two years ago by Audible, in April 2019, and there it gets a 4.4/5 score from 554 ratings!

I'm only 2/8 parts into the novel - which is nearly 10 hours – so I'll revisit these thoughts later, but I was hoping to learn something about this book from fellow Library Things.

Finished, and this novel packs a punch. It gets increasingly more serious in tone but it is always superbly written. This novel blew me away. The lead character, Ken Swift, will remain with me for a long time. I'm almost a little tired of first person narratives, but this one, how else could it be done if the author is to tell this deeply personal story. It's not a cop out here but a necessity, to express the intensity and character of this man. ( )