The Gingerbread Man

Eric Davis, as a young man just out of high school, works in the small town of Indian River in Northern Michigan. As a youth, one night in a bar he accidently kills another youth in a senseless bar room brawl. Eric Davis spends the next eight years in prison and then ships out in the merchant marine where he sails the oceans and learns the love of the sea and literature, He becomes a successful writer and decides to celebrate by visiting South Florida.

After a disasterious short marriage in Miami, he sobers up and decides that society is no place for him. Eric Davis moves to a small island in the Carribbean, where he lives alone on his beach with his three legged dog Nelson and a White Pelican. In his solitude, he writes his stories and sends them to the United States for publishing. Once a month, he and Nelson, walk to the village where he spends time drinking Red Stripe Beer and Canadain Club Whisky with his best friends Raymond and May.

There comes a night like no other. A ferocious hurricane strikes his island and the life of Eric Davis is seemingly changed forever. In his depression he comes to learn, by a magical turn of events, that no man is an island.

The Gingerbread Man is the story, told in many years, of the emotional growth of Eric Davis and the story of the life of the island and her people. In ther end, Eric Davis finds that run, run as hard as you can, sometimes you just might catch the gingerbread man.