Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea

In the World of BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA, a psychological thriller, the chaos is everywhere and the struggle against it is not always clearly understood by those involved. This struggle comes in fits and starts, sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, the characters meeting the challenge as they do mostly everything else in their chaotic lives -- they improvise, they make mistakes; they're making it up as they go along and thus, each have their own version of the truth.

In the World of BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA, a psychological thriller, the chaos is everywhere and the struggle against it is not always clearly understood by those involved. This struggle comes in fits and starts, sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, the characters meeting the challenge as they do mostly everything else in their chaotic lives -- they improvise, they make mistakes; they're making it up as they go along and thus, each have their own version of the truth. Whichever version of the truth found most plausible, they all have one common thread. They all lead back to Echo Pass -- a half completed resort community in the Colorado Rockies which sits up there festering with its secrets as it slides into bankruptcy, soon to be just another western ghost town crumbling into ruin.

James Gaffigan was born in New York City and grew up in Douglaston Queens where he went to school, graduating from St. Johns University. He lived on Charles Street in Greenwich Village, where he created and wrote the "The Charles Street Newsletter"; he also helped establish a food co-op for the neighborhood, and wrote a play "The Jar" (Jury Assembly Room) after serving on Jury duty in Manhattan. The world premiere of the play produced and directed by his sister Catherine Gaffigan was presented in Manhattan in 1985. Moving to Edison, NJ for a time, he taught English in several of the colleges. Jim lived the last 10 years of his life in Ludlow, Vermont.