Ezekiel Farragut is a college professor, a heroine addict, a sexual adventurer - locked behind the bars of Falconer prison for the death of his brother. He has survived loneliness, brutality, his own fierce anger and the malice of a beautiful, bitchy wife. He will discover more hope, more love, more of his own human compassion - miraculously - locked behind the bars of Falconer prison.

(Key Words: Prisons, Murderers, Fiction, John Cheever, Addiction, Compassion).