George Thomas Clark combines fiction and history to create seven compelling stories about Hollywood Heartache, Mass Murder, and Cold Warriors. Talented but troubled actor Robert Walker thinks he has the eternal love of a gifted wife, but he loses her and control of his life. Beautiful actress Joan Bennett has fallen out of love with her husband and seeks romance elsewhere. Vincent Brothers is a respected vice principal who is accused of a heinous crime. Joe DeAngelo faces an imaginary interrogator who forces him to examine his serial rapes and murders. Cold Warriors are examined from the viewpoints of three fanatical perpetrators - Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon and Fidel Castro.