Portland, Oregon’s thriving artistic community called to struggling novelist, Nick Gardner, all the way from Atlanta, Georgia. When he moved west, He thought he had left his dark and sketchy past behind him.
With the help of his friend, Mark, and wages from his waiter job, he struggles to find success with his writing. After years of honing his craft, he gets the opportunity every writer dreams of – a contract with a one of the largest literary agencies in the country.
Just as Nick is celebrating his new book and cable-TV contracts a sinister person from his past appears with proof that Nick committed a murder one drunken night, and he wants money.
Mark is murdered as he tried to solve the murder accusation, and then Nick tracks the killer back to the streets of Atlanta. When he returns to Portland, the gun violence finds Nick there as well. The publishing and cable-TV contracts are withdrawn because of the murder accusations, and without income, without his best friend, Nick is homeless. Then, another surprise surfaces from his Atlanta past.
To Write a Wrong is Chuck Herson’s second novel of four he has published. The other novels are Highest Quality; Interpreting Jihad; and Family Values
