Riveting . . . Haunting . . . Poignant

A series of long-buried and hard-kept secrets are uncovered as Ethan Benson decides to embark on an unknowingly dark journey to resolve an “open-and-shut” case involving the murder of the young hooker Heather Starr. A respected, world-renowned surgeon, Rufus Wellington, shocks the entire world with not only being caught red-handed in the crime and then confessing to the whole thing, even waiving the right to trial. Keeping quiet for two full years, Rufus does not speak to anyone about the incident—not even to his attorney or the police . . . That is, until—playing a game of his own—he calls for an exclusive interview with Ethan and his anchorman, Peter Sampson, and decides to tell them “everything.”
Unsuspecting, Ethan investigates and resolves to produce the interview—even when he has to dodge angry pimps, chase hookers in dark alleys, outrun stalkers in a life-and-death pursuit, and distinguish who are actually telling him the truth and who are part of the spiderweb that he has been entangled into. All this while he tries to fight his own demons eating him from inside out and tries to salvage his marriage, save his family, and get his life in order—or what’s left of it.
Live to Tape thrusts readers into a web of conspiring law enforcement officials, scared legal personnel, angry pimps and hookers, and even a scandalous nonprofit home for runaway young women—all entangled in the surgeon’s insane goose chase that eventually concludes to a series of wicked surprises buried all over the small, eerily quiet town.
One is taken into a gloomy tour of a small town unsuspectingly immersed in tight-lipped conspiracy to cover up the perversions of an overwhelmingly rich and successful and, thus, spoiled socio-psychopath.
Written by an author with abundant, jargonized journalism background, Live to Tape slowly but purposefully tells a murder story from an outsider’s—no, a stranger’s initially clueless but well developed perspective. The book will not only keep you flipping through the pages but also keep you deducing your own answers and judgments. Just as Benson must decide at every turn, a reader is left with his own individual choices to proceed as he is also taken for good, old mysterious ride.