Alan Epstein 
Having Had 

Recovering drug addict Noah struggles to keep his clarity–and sanity–in a dangerous world, as he plays a sinister game with the seductive couple next door, his coworkers, his family, and all those around him. A Someone is out for blood–but who? A A careful snare is being set up–but to capture who? Which is hunter, and which is game? A Noah sloshes through a maze of deceit, revolvers, duct tape, and assorted bodily fluids, desperate to navigate and manipulate through an unknowable, obscure, and sometimes faithless world. A Having Had is a funny, suspenseful, and chilling story of psychological suspense that probes the lies within truth, and the truth within lies.A The brutally endearing narrator takes the reader on a wild excursion into addiction and recovery, light and dark, despair and exhilaration, sweeping towards an unexpected and twisted climax.