Twelve-Step Fandango

<p>Martin Brock is living a wasted life. He wants to be happy. He wants to have a girlfriend who can stand to be near him. He wants his friends to respect him. Burned out and self-deluded he takes each day as it comes dealing low-quality cocaine to tourists his head in a perpetual cloud of pot smoke. Martin knows he's in a rut but he lacks the will to dig himself out. Incapable of changing his life he hopes instead that one day something momentous will simply fall into his lap.</p><p>And one day it does. An old friend rides into town unannounced and uninvited needing a place to lie low for a couple of days. He says he's been in a motorcycle accident and hides a badly infected leg beneath his expensive leathers. Martin almost cares but he's far more interested in what's concealed beneath the seat of the bike: five kilos of high-grade cocaine. Suddenly Martin has the means to escape his miserable existence: all he needs is a little time and a lot of luck. But Martin Brock is not a lucky man. He's spent years dreaming of a life of ease a life of plenty and a life of unlimited narcotics. By the end of the week he'll settle for any life at all.</p>