The Crooked Finger

<p>Cold cold city. San Francisco. Christmas. The new millennium. </p><p></p><p>Charly Bingswanger smalltime crook needs to lie low. A mix-up and a rock worth far more than he realizes is making his the hottest spot in town. </p><p></p><p>Holiday visitors. How nice. Don't slip on the blood coming in. </p><p></p><p>He leaves it with a girl sudden fling enchanted perhaps by her curious finger. </p><p></p><p>Mistake Charly!</p><p></p><p>Mistakes beget mistakes and soon he's off to Mexico ending up in Tokyo where one day he wakes to find for the first time in months a minute of tranquility. </p><p></p><p>Knock on the door.</p>