FELONIOUS VOL.1: *or "How to Survive the Criminal/criminal Justice System with a Smile....and Love" (Felon*ious Chronicles)

A Dantean Journey and a Quantum Love Story set in post- Armageddon America.
Based on a True Story-You saw it on 60 Minutes and American Greed, and read about it in Vanity Fair- a former Wall Street hedge fund whiz, down on his luck, gets embroiled into a monster Ponzi by his Park Avenue lawyer. The real criminals, meanwhile, who stole Trillions with the help of the Federal Government, waltz off with their bonuses, but he gets snagged in the ensuing witch hunt. His public defender attorney assures him that probation is the max that he would get, but the Judge, a fellow Ivy Leaguer, decides to teach him a lesson- several years as a guest of the Feds, and not just summer camp, but real, lock-up prison...yes...a Max facility built on a toxic waste dump of the old Brooklyn Navy Yard.
In a bitter/sweet twist of fate, his long lost Love of a Lifetime reaches him just prior to sentencing and they rekindle their burning passion for each other.
This leads him into the surreal wild ride through the criminal/Criminal Justice System, and into the long distance emotional re-union with The Love of His Life. Felonious is an Impassioned expose of the inner workings of the criminal/Criminal Justice system and a Passionate Love story of rediscovery and redemption. In order to maintain the newly rediscovered connection, they decide that he should share his day to day experiences in the belly of the beast, through the monitored phone calls, emails and letters. In this manner, she unwittingly becomes a voyeur of the prison experience.
The sentence hits him hard, but he is determined to make it, despite the odds. So, he takes on a super intense workout routine, which, with his professional level music skills, his quirky sense of humor, his love for his kids, and his re-connection with his Quantum Twin - The Love of His Life....keep him sane in the insane predicament, and keep him from going under.
As it unfolds, he sends letters and emails, along with song lyrics, sharing with her the absurdities of American prison life including the ever changing cast of characters from the suicidal “Tranny” to the falsely accused Catholic Priest and the wanna-be gangsters and pranksters who journey with him. In the process he realizes that he’s been in a different kind of jail all his life: Pleasing his parents and ex-wife through the delusion called “ The American Dream” . Finally, he rediscovers his real passions: creating music, and saving his Quantum Twin from her own version of Hell. These pull him through the first two agonizing years of zero sunlight in what he calls
“ The Grey Planet”.
The story is written in short, ironic chapters like the emails they are based on, giving us an educated insider’s assessment of the Federal Prison System and through it, an exploration of the misplaced values and assumptions of modern American life. Much like Uncle Tom’s Cabin revealed the atrocities of slavery, Felonious raises the consciousness level to reveal what appears to be the new enslavement of the evolving and expanding criminal/Criminal Justice System of the USA, and the manner to overcome it through the redemptive power of Love.
The names have been changed to protect the Guilty/Innocent but the Experience continues in all its Surreal tragi-comic Magic.