Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer with a penchant for nicotine, alcohol and blondes with money, struggles towards consciousness twenty-four days and nights after his wide has left him. He has a bad case of alcohol amnesia, a fresh and throbbing tattoo and a car drenched in blood. Just to make his hangover complete, Provincetowns Chief of Police would like a quiet word…

So begins Maddens disquieting journey into the dark recesses of Americas psyche. TOUGH GUYS DONT DANCE is Norman Mailer at his tough, raw and uncompromising best. And Maddens tormented efforts to reconstruct the missing hours of a terrible evening turn, inevitably into fragments of the American Nightmare.