As Ron Currie's third novel opens, a broken-hearted man in his early forties has lost his wife, his sense of self, and according to most his mind. Alone in his grief, and weary of a world filled with lies and delusions, he becomes a doomed truth teller, misunderstood by friends and strangers alike. After intervening in an armed robbery, though, he finds himself the inadvertent star of a reality TV show.