There are many books about famous bands and rock stars out there, but whatever happened to those musicians that did not become famous? These are the experiences of drummer-singer George Garrett and guitarist-singer Rick Lawton. They were on a crazy and unpredictable U.S. road tour in 1978, but as they were buddies and played in bands together in high school, their reminiscences go way back. What started out as a simple e-mail memory exchange grew into this book. If you have ever wondered what happened to all those club bands and musicians you used to go out to see, listen, and dance to (or even go out with) back in the 70s, read on. You might get a clue from this book

Chasing Lazarus is a literary mystery which takes place against a San Francisco background of blazing sun, pea-soup fogs, tony restaurants, the Haight Street Disneyland, and dark, sinister SoMa nightclubs. Harry Mach, a rapacious financial adviser, Judy Ferris, an upright travel writer/journalist, and Marant Olivier, a deadly assassin are all chasing Wiley Brooks. Wiley, a flame-haired CIA interrogator and drug dealer ripped off backers in a drug scheme, left a note about "business reversals," and jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge. Harry, Judy, and Marant know Wiley faked his suicide, but they have far different reasons for finding him. Chasing Lazarus is a roller-coaster ride; read it and find out who gets Wiley.

Rex Stories are the stories of occupants of the Manhattan-based Rex Hotel. Among others, there's Ric the paranoid Cuban, who's beset upon by a CIA-led infestation of cockroaches; Joey who aspires to ski the slopes on white lines of cocaine; deluded Alex who preaches life without illusions; and Luce who looks upon the Rex as "the last refuge of the Real People." Whether or not true, Lawton makes them seem real enough; moreover, surrounded by gentrification, theirs is a reality they can't always bear. Thus readers should be warned: Lawton doesn't offer us a cast of raffish Guys and Dolls, Damon Runyon-type characters. The occupants of the Rex are much more descendants of those who once frequented a Greenwich Village saloon-rooming house nearly a century before, the same ones the playwright Eugene O'Neil first introduced us to in the Iceman Cometh.