Thirty Shocks For Thirty Maria's

"Life I love, but my life I hate. It's as simple as that."

For twenty years, psychiatrist Kyle Edwards has been plagued by sleepless nights, whiskey on the rocks, and the haunting memory of a single patient.

Michael Blaine returned to New York hoping to find what he had lost. Instead, he found a friendship that evolved into tragedy.

From rainy nights spent inside Manhattan bars to the tourist-filled cafés of Hydra, Greece, Thirty Shocks for Thirty Maria's is the story of two disillusioned men searching for meaning in a modern world that grows questionable with each passing day.

Friendship, obsession, loneliness, fate, spirituality and the consequences of the lies we tell ourselves make up the pages of Max Zaharopoulos' debut novel.