Hollywood Towers — Lynn Roberts

Days on the street have a sameness about them. The kids hang out, panhandle, they steal, they tell each other stories, they fall in love and lust and hate. They steal from the tourists and they steal from each other. They shoplift from stores and they break into cars. Some of them sell their bodies. Tony has lived on the streets of Hollywood his entire young life. Clever, witty, and fiercely independent, he has managed to survive the many dangers and pitfalls the streets have laid out to catch him. But for how much longer? Now Tony is enmeshed in a web of danger, caught up in the underworld of drugs and pornography, pursued by hitmen, and not knowing who he can trust, if anyone. Enter Bob Davis, a grieving Pulitzer Prize winning news photographer. On sabbatical, he finds himself drawn to Tony's story, and then into the treacherous world of Hollywood's streets. Our children aren't living on the streets. They are dying there.