Sex and Crime: Oliver's Strange Journey

Oliver, a teenage hacker in Aachen, Germany, who is the victim of traumatic childhood abuse and suffers from PTSD, falls in love with an American girl online, and spends many hours on the phone with her every day for a year, until he moves in with her in New York. After his crazy adventures as a New York cab driver, he becomes a successful cartoonist and goes on to be an Internet millionaire. A painful divorce throws him into a deep, almost suicidal depression until he falls in love with a heroin addict. As his life spirals more and more out of control, Oliver gets sucked deeper and deeper into the dark world of drug addiction and prostitution.

Along his strange journey into the seedy underworld of Fort Myers, Florida, Oliver encounters a number of female drug addicts and he empathizes with them because of his own traumatic past. He feels compelled to try to help them escape the addict lifestyle, but the end result is always the same: They break his heart. SEX AND CRIME explores the world of online prostitution, female prisons, the underlying causes and consequences of drug addiction, as well as the shortcomings of the AA 12-step-program and the failure of traditional rehab programs that are utterly divorced from modern medical science. There have been a number of books about drug addiction in recent years, but SEX AND CRIME offers a fresh, unique perspective.

Things continue to get worse and worse. Oliver slowly realizes that he's a codependent enabler and the drug addicted girls he's been trying to help are just using him. Instead of helping them escape their addict lifestyle, they have sucked him into their dark world and he's trapped in a self-destructive downward spiral. Overwhelmed by pain and depression, he decides that enough is enough. Things need to change if he ever wants to find happiness.

"One of the best things I've read in years."

"Unique. Unlike any other book I've ever read."

"A fascinating glimpse into the dark world of prostitution and drug addiction."

"The best depiction of female sociopaths since GONE GIRL."

"One of the rare books that is not only highly entertaining, but also profound and deeply moving."

"A totally engrossing book. Once you start reading, you won't be able to put it down until you're finished."

"If you liked THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER or THE FAULT IN OUR STARSyou're going to get hooked on this book."

"Fans of BREAKING BAD and ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK are going to love this book."

"FORREST GUMP meets FIFTY SHADES OF GREY."

(Sex and Crime is a special edition that contains the first three books in the "Oliver's Strange Journey" series.)