Shades of Gray

Set in the heart of sprawling Los Angeles <I>Shades of Gray</I> is a depressingly intimate horrifically kaleidoscopic novel about two roommates-one trying desperately to secure a future she desires as the other dives into a gluttony of excess to avoid the predictable nine-to-five post-college adult world he's now an unwilling member of-who become entangled in bizarre episodes of sexual oddity bankrupt morality and human frailty each in the vivid backdrop of a city gripped by a serial of a merciless serial killer.<P>Lindsay a graduate student and aspiring writer is in love with her friend Kaspar who may or may not be a murderer and her roommate Shea a respected up-and-comer at Industrial Insurance Group who is gay most of the time drunk most of the time high most of the time and on a constant caroming quest to find his own mystery man each crossing paths with The Murderer and each experiencing the darkest side of macabre torment.<P><I>Shades of Gray</I> <B>Christopher Szatkowski's</B> third novel is the spectacular downfall of slightly regular people. </P>