Matt and Leni are high school kids, best friends and kinky sex partners. They've managed - by accident! - to infuriate the local Mafia, which has put a contract out on them. Matt and Leni continue their erotic relationship while simultaneously trying to stay alive and to send the mob boss to jail.

The book tells stories – always amusing and sometimes enlightening – about some of the remarkable people Greg has encountered in his career, including Joe Biden, Richard Lugar, the graffiti artist A-ONE, French Resistance hero André Heintz, Hopi Tribal Chairman Abbott Sekaquaptewa, and others.

The book begins with the long poem, Emily Snitz, about a girl who tries gamely but unsuccessfully to outrun her own shadow. This is followed by several other children’s stories and poems Greg wrote over the years.

This book synthesizes the knowledge Greg gained over the years advising ultra-wealthy families both during his years running a family office for what was then the world’s wealthiest family and also in the subsequent years running his own wealth advisory firm.

This book follows Pittsburgh from its frontier beginnings through its evolution into the most heavily industrialized city in the world, to the city's renewal of itself as "America's Most Livable City."

In this book each poem is preceded by a description of the events that precipitated the poem. The poems range from amusing (“Ancient Roman Graffiti”) to nightmarish (“The Ballad of Eddie Lash”). There are war poems (“Phan Lý”), love poems (“You Have Come and Gone”), dream poems (“Song of the Mountain Spring”) and break-up poems (“When I Last Saw the Sea”).

Matt Chandler is now in college and not doing well. One day his old friend and kinky sex partner, Leni Brand, shows up telling Matt that she was raped by her boyfriend, a Youngstown gangster named Eddie Monaghan, who had threatened to kill her if she testified against him.