This story is about a missing thirteen year old schoolgirl Gillian Walters, who was presumed to have been abducted from her home in 1977. Thirteen years had passed and she was presumed dead as the 'girl's body' had not yet been found. The local police in charge of the inquiry had passed this cold case over to a special secretive division which incorporated officers David Whoot the detective Doctor and Jeremy Ashman. These were no ordinary officers. They possessed special abilities. They were able to forecast future events as well as communicate with other existences. This case takes the pair on a series of thrilling adventures, travelling globally in the hunt to reveal the truth...

In his mid-forties, writer Jason Sams will only grudgingly admit that alcohol has become less useful to him that it once had been, at some indeterminate period in his life. Sure, he's turned over cars, wrecked friendships and also screwed up his career. But ever since Edgar Allen Poe, American writers have known the art and alcohol go hand in hand. Ivan Gold chronicles Jason Sams's weekend-long journey from his home in Boston to his native New York and back again--a journey that shocks him out of twenty-five years of drinking and into a shaky sobriety.

Ivan Gold's first novel, re-released to accompany his triumphant return with Sams in a Dry Season. Introducing Jason Sams, a New York playboy and author, Sick Friends draws fictional and real experience into a story full of "wit, imagination, verbal ingenuity, and frankness" (Playboy).