You hitch your lift with this man
You'll have your blood on your hand …

AN OLDER MAN WITH NO FUTURE, AND NOTHING TO LIVE FOR …

Norman Dimond is the Silver Man, an over-the-hill LA-based rock 'n roll record producer who has seen better days. A set-for-life bisexual with a hard spot for younger men, he squanders his nights hustling cash-strapped gay-for-pay desperadoes who swagger into his den on the Sunset Strip, looking for drive-by love in all the right places. Lonely and at loose ends, he longs for a worthy dance partner, but despairs of finding him … Until one night, when he least expects it, in waltzes …

A YOUNGER MAN WITH A PAST, AND A DEATH WISH …

Johnny Gellis is the Platinum Man, a beautiful straight wreck who needs fixing—and who wants exactly what Norman Dimond has to give: a platform, a stage. But does he want it badly enough? Desperate to outrun his demons, he's driving himself crazy, and is heading straight for the edge. Can Norman save him, before it's too late?

TWO LIVES ABOUT TO COLLIDE IN A SUICIDE RIDE …

When Norman meets Johnny, their heavy-metal fenders bend, sending the male-on-male sparks flying. Johnny's number-one-with-a-bullet hit "Suicide Ride" blows Norman's mind, while his number-99-with-an-anchor tattoo pricks up more than just his ears. And though this hell-bent, cliff-hanging headbanger is the man-boy of his dreams, keeping him on course turns out to be a waking nightmare. Can Norman do it? Can he put him on top while stopping him from breaking down and destroying them both? The deeper Dimond digs, the darker it gets; and as the secrets and suspense multiply, so, too, do the lies. Johnny is hiding something, that much Norman is sure of; and what's worse, he begins to feel the tug of even darker and ever more violent undertows—sinister, malevolent drags that Gellis himself cannot spin-rinse away.

Although SUCIDE RIDE: THE PLATINUM MAN (Book One of the SUICIDE RIDE series) is marketed as Gay Literary Fiction, its target audience is much broader. It will appeal to anyone who relishes a riveting story well told, to all lovers of literature, regardless of orientation, all readers who get off on beauty and precision in language, who dig delving deep into the minds of eerily alive characters so real you need to prick them with a pin just to be sure ...

At its heart, SUICIDE RIDE is a beautiful, lyrical, raw, and palpably poignant love story, a paean to the blood pact made in the dark between two lost, lonely souls. An archetypal tale evoking the age-old quest for immortality brokered by those man-made devils within and without, it speaks deeply to anyone who has ever struggled to square his circle in the world.

"E. Llewellyn is a literary force to be reckoned with in this astonishing debut as a novelist. She does for Gay literature what Kubrick did for cinema—redefines and elevates, and constantly undercuts your expectations of the genre, making believers out of blowhards. Unfettered, unflinching, bristling with emotion, she rocks your world. Turning the concept of a Bildungsroman on its head, this literary tour de force explores the nether regions of characters who live on the edge. These are the people your parents used to warn you about." ~ Mark Peter Krasselt, author of Kubrick: Lessons of a Sentient

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E. LLEWELLYN is an American-born expatriate writer living in London and Berlin, and is the author of the Hollywood neo-noir series SUICIDE RIDE, including THE PLATINUM MAN and the forthcoming sequels THE FIX and THE HIT.