Introduction. For the past six weeks Detective Lieutenant Kenne Quintcannon uses his day off exercising to try and get his body back into perfect physical condition after abusing it for ten years. At the age of thirty-five getting an abused body back to perfect physical condition is no small task because Kenne's job doesn't give him the time needed to accomplish it. But he keeps trying. Besides the physical exercise, he also exercises his frustrations, fantasies and humility to the limit. He does this by playing pick-up basketball games at the renowned Venice Beach courts where, from time to time, a cool Pacific Ocean breeze cools off the sweating participants on a hot summer day. But not today. Two teams are embattled in a hotly contested, full court basketball game. One team is wearing T-shirts the other team is bare-chested. Kenne, a member of the bare-chested or skins team, is dribbling the basketball toward the opponent's basket as fast as his aging and out-of-condition legs will