Houston’s Illusion: Abyss of Romance

This is a story of seemingly two inseparable friends. It’s a story about one man who was born into wealth and another man who was born into poverty. It’s the story of two men who learned to take charge of their own destiny, who survived the horrors of war, who fell in love and lost love. It’s a story about the women they loved and the women they shared. It’s the story of two unlikeliest of friends, their rise and their fall, and their betrayals.

What do you do when you’ve been betrayed by her best friend? What do you do when the love of your life cheats on you with your best friend? What do you do when you suffer from post traumatic stress disorder and the world around you seems unreal because you suffer from hallucinations?

Gordon Houston is independently wealthy private detective who became friends with Bill Brennan during World War II. The two came from opposite ends of the economic spectrum. Somehow, they became the best of friends despite their vastly different backgrounds. But through the years, they grew apart and became quite differ men from what they were during the war.
All Gordon wants is to find true love. He has everything except true love. All Bill wants is wealth and power, he already has true love. Bill abandons love for the pursuit of power. Gordon abandons a life of wealth and privilege, for pursuit of love.

In the process, one man becomes an integral had of an international crime syndicate and another man vows to take him down. In the process, one man finds true love and another man finds wealth and power. One man will survive and one man will perish.