KILLING SPREE is an audacious take and twist on the patron-protege storyline. Derek Ferguson is a young novelist who writes a play to star his fabled idol of stage and screen, Marguerite Courtney, with a part for Derek's girl friend Ashley to play Marguerite's granddaughter. Derek entreats his mentor Barry Logan, a powerful producer of musicals, to network for him. Barry being jealous of Derek, forms a cabal with Marguerite to enlist a famous playwright, Philip Reynolds, to plagiarize Derek's play. When the ripped-off version appears on Broadway, Derek and Ashley recognize it bears a parallel plot to his play. A Pandora's box is opened. Derek kicks up a fuss. The trio of powerful parasites to protect themselves, diabolically decide to have the ripped-off Derek bumped-off. Derek survives several attempts on his life. Ashley leaves him, and he goes on the lam to live in the lower depths of Alphabet City, Tired of taking it, he starts dishing it out, emerging from hiding to make retaliatory strikes. He gets hooked up with a Black hooker, Gaby, who is being threatened by a former pimp. Will the powerless lovers survive against insurmountable odds from such powerful and persecuting enemies? How can Derek devise gory and ingenuously plotted murders that will stump the NYPD? Besides being a revenge thriller, KILLING SPREE is a savage satire on show business shenanigans.