The Tipping Point of Oliver Bass

The story is about the existential highly educated, rebellious kid, whose only protection with the world outside his brilliant mind is his sarcastic wit and his subversive private school demeanor.

At seventeen he finds himself still haunted by his mother's abandonment and horrific suicide, the loneliness he felt since age five, and the emotional void that came from an absent father. The real drama is whether he can come to grips and separate fact from fiction in order to keep his own sanity intact, when a perfect stranger, who has a penchant for mystery and homicide, suggests his mother, was actually a victim of foul play.

Oliver is hopeful that all paths will lead him to a place where the psychological scars of an oppressive dysfunctional family can be erased from his mind forever. All the clues are scattered throughout his journey but he of course never thinks to look for them because he distrusts humanity as a general rule.

Join Oliver Bass as he relocates from the protection of the posh Pacific Heights district of San Francisco, and into an unfamiliar world of deception, greed and indifference on the murky canals of Venice, California.