Betwixt and Between
Johnny Marathon, a fiction hero in a spy novel, awakens in New York City with no memory, only a soul-deep need to track down a woman he cannot remember but knows he loves. Cryptic clues, strange dreams and an annoying homeless man reveal to Johnny he is a fiction character in a novel being written by a young author named, Judd. The fledgling author's lack of writing skills has trapped his hero and a cast of supporting characters and antagonists in literary purgatory. Johnny's quest is to find his creator and convince him to improve his writing skills.
All stories need conflict and for Johnny two rival mob bosses, a straight razor-totting dwarf and a scoundrel in a suit, along with a voluptuous hit-woman and the entire NYPD, are each determined to extract Judd's name and address from Johnny for their own purposes. To escape purgatory, find his lost love and keep his status as the story's main character, Johnny must find his creator before his pursuers.
Through one misadventure after another, Johnny tracks down Judd, only to be cornered in the writer's apartment by an epic shootout between the mobster gangs and police. The shoot out ends with the meanest cop in control. He orders the writer to change the storyline, replacing Johnny with himself as the story's hero. Not about to be ordered around by any of his characters, Judd refuses, leaving his characters trapped, or are they?
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