Clifton Brown is a handsome man, and he's great with women. He has an ex-wife still in love with him and a beautiful widow who goes around and who would do anything to make him happy. But in Clifton Brown is missing something. Like Jake Barnes of "Fiesta", the masterpiece by Ernest Hemingway, a trauma he deprived of his Manhood and forced him to a drift in alcohol to blunt the pain and despair. As often happens to the great fools of Thompson, the step from depression to anger and murder is too short because the life of Clifton is likely to take a road from which there is no return.