Love & Addiction

About the Book

Maria is a Hispanic American woman. She is a professor at a university in Monterrey, Mexico. There is trouble in her marriage. She falls in love with Stanley, a Hispanic-American doctor, who is a Neurologist at a hospital in Monterrey. After much pain, she leaves her husband and moves in with Stanley. Crime has broken out in Monterrey. Stanley and Maria decide to move to Laredo, Texas. Stanley and Maria are kidnapped by one of the gangs. They are beaten, raped, and injected with heroin. Maria becomes addicted. She explores prostitution to pay for her habit. She commutes from Laredo to Monterrey to see her two children Maria lives the life of an addict, but she is also addicted with sex.

About the Author

James Press is the author of four fiction books, and is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Statistics at the University of California at Riverside. He has held professorial positions at The University of Chicago, Stanford University, Yale University, University College London, London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of California at Riverside, the University of California at San Diego, and the University of British Columbia. He has also worked professionally at the Bureau of the Census. He consulted at The Rand Corporation for some thirty years, worked at Brookhaven National Laboratories, Northrop Aircraft Corp., McDonald-Douglas Corp., and is currently President of Statistical Analysis Inc, a statistical consulting company.