Joy Boy

Mississippi native Alex Ashby is a drop-dead gorgeous 22-year-old male prostitute. He has been a victim all his life, having suffered both physical and sexual abuse at the hands of his father and uncle.

Now, he sits in Chicago’s Cook County Jail accused of killing two very important people and a pizza delivery boy and is believed only by a black newspaper reporter and Alex’s friend, a cocky blond hustler named Tom Pappas.

The reporter and Tom scour Chicago’s seedy Uptown neighborhood, where many white Southerners have settled, to find “The Night Crawler”—whom they believe to be the real killer—and a 12-year-old hustler believed to be the only survivor of the massacre, who can exonerate Alex.

Their odyssey takes the reporter on a harrowing ride through Blood Alley—Chicago’s deadliest and most dreaded street—where even angels fear to tread.

Nascut in Mississippi, Alex Ashby este un prostituat de 22 de ani. El a fost victima toata viata, dupa ce a suferit atat abuzuri fizice, cat si sexuale din mana tatalui si a unchiului sau. Acum, el sta in inchisoarea din comitatul Cook din Chicago, acuzat ca a ucis doi oameni foarte importanti si un baiat de livrare de pizza si se crede doar de catre un reporter de ziar negru si prietenul lui Alex, un hustler blond de cocos numit Tom Pappas. Reporterul si Tom parcurg cartierul Uptown din Chicago, unde s-au stabilit multi sudici albi, pentru a gasi „The Night Crawler” - pe care il considera ucigasul real - si un hustler de 12 ani despre care se crede ca este singurul supravietuitor al masacrului, care il poate exonera pe Alex. Odiseea lor il duce pe reporter intr-o plimbare ingrozitoare prin Blood Alley - cea mai mortala si temuta strada din Chicago - unde chiar si ingerii se tem sa calce .