"The plan had gone straight to hell. The others were dead-or locked up-and if I didn't think of something fast, I'd be next..." A streetwise teenager with nothing to lose. A token booth clerk with no way out. A desperate heist that goes horribly wrong. Just another dark detour down JUNCTION BOULEVARD... Set on the seedy streets and subways of 1980's Corona, Queens, JUNCTION BOULEVARD blends psychological suspense with urban angst to present a crime-thriller about the pursuit and price of redemption. "...A VERY FLUID WRITING STYLE, WITH] A GOOD EAR FOR DIALOGUE, A GOOD PLOT...AND WELL-DEFINED, INTERESTING CHARACTERS." - J. Schuster, The Literary Group International ***New York City-Summer of '87: Scheming barrio teen RICO SIERRA finds sex and danger on his search for diversion from the mean streets-while troubled token booth clerk JOHN GAVIN finds new love and new hope to get his life back on track. Like the trains that rumble overhead, these two strangers rarely intersect, meeting only at key junctures. But when sadistic deviants bent on extortion threaten to derail John's life, crafty Rico's master plan may be their only avenue of escape. Now, their destinies collide, converging on a desperate heist. But Rico and John learn there are no free rides on this dark detour through Hell-more commonly known as JUNCTION BOULEVARD. JUNCTION BOULEVARD was a Top 10 Finalist selected from over 2,600 entries in Simon & Schuster's First Chapters competition ***