The title: Tenderloin; besides being a cut of beef is also the name of a particular neighborhood in San Francisco. It was and still is...a colorful place where hard working folk rub elbows with prostitutes, druggies, and the homeless. The story, "Tenderloin" focuses on two of the many homeless folks in the Tenderloin...an ex-cop; Danny Brogan, and an ex-College Professor, James "Smitty" Smith. Tenderloin tells of these two desperate souls as they struggle to survive their environment. It is also a story of a demented soul who being a third generation San Franciscan finds the state of the Tenderloin intolerable and employs brutal methods to 'cleanse' his beloved City Nick Pelligrini is a young, aggressive, Homicide, Detective. A fan of Sherlock Holmes he longs for the case whereby he can emulate his hero. In essence: Tenderloin is the story of conflicting personalities, characters and morals, which intersperse as in vortex.