James R. Cowley

Bitten by the plagued, The Fool must pull himself together, brick by brick, to become a Golden Hero.

An East Vancouver nihilist finds new purpose after restoring a race bicycle salvaged from the trash. When a crooked dealer, aware of the bike's true value, steals it, our anti-hero becomes trapped in a relentless pursuit, navigating Vancouver’s underbelly to reclaim his ride—or risk slipping back into the garbage heap of nihilism.

When Harry, an obsessive compulsive entomologist, follows his curiosities into darker realms of practice, he gets more than he ever imagined in return: purpose.