When it comes to murder, seduction and betrayal he wrote the book. Now he's living it!
Pulp novelist Dan Dark escapes into his vivid imagination, where gunmen and gumshoes pursue their pulpy agenda, casting himself as the titular "warbler" whose pain and anger is focused like a laser on his cheating wife and anyone else who's made his real and imaginary worlds unbearable.
From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.