Parrt-conspirational adventure, part dramatic-confessional, part comic-cautionary tale, the novel, 101 Saturday Nights, chronicles the precarious escapes and jocular exploits of avant-garde, expressionistic painter, Cord Baylor. Riding the crest of cult success and international fame, Baylors life disintegrates into chaos and memory when his magnum opus is stolen by random thieves during a midnight raid. Arriving home to find solace following a friends funeral, Cord is subsequently abducted in his family home at the hands of a gang of marginals hired by his father and step-brother to get the infamous Cord Baylor out of the picture Once in captivity the absurdist panorama of Cord Baylors world opens up to expose the comic realism at its core, as an epic sweep of events reach a crescendo.