When I came to the city in sixty-eight, I heard about a tattoo artist named Lyle Tuttle and went to his shop at Seventh Street and Market Street to see his artwork. I decided to get a tattoo. I was eighteen years old. Months later I went back and I got another tattoo. Many years past before getting any tattoos.  But in seventy-eight I decided to get a few more tattoos.  Fifteen years passed and I went to the Mission to look for a tattoo shop.  I found a shop at Sixteenth at Valencia that was called Van Gogh’s Tattoo Shop.  I met a tattoo artist named Marie and we started to talk about tattooing.  I asked her how long she had been tattooing and she said that she was there to apprentice.  Since then she has been the tattoo artist that has been tattooing me.
    I am writing this story so if there is anyone out there what likes tattoo art, you can contact me at tattoorat@hotmail.com.

        Your friend,
        Tattoo Tim

Harry is a janitor of a large company. While at work one night he discovers a dead body in the bathroom. While bending down looking at the body someone hits him in head and knocks him out. When he wakes the body is gone. Harry, a Vietnam veteran believes he may be hallucinating about the body. He often has dreams of the war. Harry explains the event to his best friend, Jay. Jay suggests he visit his brother Roger, the doctor. Harry doesn’t like trains but rides the subway to see Roger. Roger gives Harry some medication.
      Harry meets a pretty lady who is blind and her name is Anne. They become good friends. Harry tells Anne about his ordeal of finding the dead body. Anne tells Harry about being blind. Harry goes to the men’s room. After washing his face and hands he notices a message on the mirror behind him. The message is written backwards so he reads it while looking at the mirror in front of him. The message says, “Harry We Will Meet Soon, Jenrack.”
      Harry has a very hard time sleeping. He lies there thinking about his time in Vietnam during the 4th of July. Suddenly, Harry hears the click of a gun. His eyes pop open and Jenrack is pointing a gun in his face. Jenrack informs Harry that he is aware of the dead body in the bathroom. Jenrack wants Harry to steal some top-secret papers from the office. These papers are usually burned at the end of every day in a barrel. Harry does not want to be a traitor to his country by giving Jenrack the papers. Jenrack tells Harry that this is his way to get at the country that ruined his life in Vietnam.
      Jenrack kidnaps Anne. Jenrack gives Harry instructions and clues to a wild hunt in order to deliver the papers and find Anne.
      Read the book and find the twisted ending.