The Gingerbread Man

Eric Davis, as a young man just getting out of high school,works in a hardware store on a small town in Northern Michigan named Indian River. As a youth, one night in a bar he accidently kills another young man by hitting him over the head with a beer bottle. Eric Davis spends the next eight years in prison and then ships out in the merchant marine where he sails the oceans and learns the love of the sea and literature. He becomes a successfull writer and decides to celebrate by visiting South Florida.

After a disasterious short marriage in Miami, he sobers up and decides that society is no place for him. Eric Davis moves to a small island in the Carribbean, where he lives alone with his three legged dog Nelson and a White Pelican. In his solitude, he writes his stories and sends them to the United States for publishing. Once a month he and Nelson walk to the village where he spends his time drinking Red Stripe Beer and Canadian Club Whisky with his friends Raymond and May.

There comes a night like no other. A ferocious hurricane strikes his island and the life of Eric Davis is seemingly changed forever. In his depression he comes to learn by a magical turn of events, that no man is an island.

The Gingerbread Man is the story, told in many years, of the emotional growth of Eric Davis and the stroy of the life of the island and her people. In the end, Eric Davis discovers that run, run as hard as you can, sometimes you might just catch the gingerbread man.