Patrick Silver is an Irishman in New York, an eccentric giant who never wears shoes - not even in winter. An ex-cop, he once served under disgraced First Deputy Isaac Sidel. But now his life has taken a peculiar turn.

His love was like a hurricane Jocko Robinson is the 97th richest man in America and the creator of The Lamplighter, the world-popular TV crime series. But that doesn't stop Jocko from getting shot in the head while looking for a tofu burger in Los Angeles. And that won't stop Jocko from falling helplessly in love with the Hurricane Lady, a former model who calls herself Inertia and serves a crime lord from Cologne. A man in love among a tangle of lovers, Jocko is desperately trying to pry Inertia away from her life of mayhem and promiscuity. To succeed, Jocko has to enter the realm of his own fantasy -- and somehow find a way out again.