Dreams Die First

Gareth Brendan, young, power-hungry and ambitious, dreams of expressing his personal vision of liberated sexuality in a magazine that will deal openly and honestly with sex. So Macho is born, to shock and fascinate with its outspoken views. But for Gareth, success also brings threats and obstruction - from the underworld, from the law, from rivals. Violent confrontations follow one after another as Gareth converts his dream into a flamboyant private empire of total pleasure and hedonism, in which money and sex go hand in hand; in a world so rich it becomes almost too enormous for Gareth to control. Dreams Die First is a raw and passionate novel that exposes the behind-the-scenes world of one man's sex empire - a man who sacrifices his dreams to the reality of success.