Acclaimed Abstract artist Sun Yat Pill has just had his most successful Gallery opening. After the exhibition, he goes home and retrieves the painting he has been working on for the last 2 years, his masterpiece, 'The St. Matthew'. With painting in hand, he takes the subway to the South Bronx. On a deserted ghetto block, he leaves 'The St. Matthew' in the backseat of an abandoned, rusted Volkswagen Bug. With his mission accomplished, he returns home and promptly hangs himself, committing suicide. Where is 'The St. Matthew' and why did Pill take his own life? As these questions grow in the media, a Basquiat Bounce begins to creep into play. Basquiat Bounce is an art world phenomena referring to the works of Jean Michel Basquiat, who since his well-publicized and untimely death, has seen his paintings increase in value some 15,000%. Leading the search is Todd Atkins, art critic and Pill's agent. Atkins uses his forum to create art theories that increase the value of the painters he has a piece of. As the paintings publicity and accompanying value rises, others join the search including a counter culture private investigator and an uptown drug lord. They find that the answer to Sun Yat Pill's mystery might just reside with a forgotten homeless man. The Basquiat Bounce is a novel that highlights the talent and absurdities of the contemporary art world. A business where Terence Koh's 'Dialectic' (A dried turd wrapped in gold foil) or Mark Kostabi (Who has his assistants paint for him) can command hundreds of thousands of dollars and have solo exhibitions around the globe. Through its cast of eccentric characters, The Basquiat Bounce tries to make sense of this industry in an often hilarious and always entertaining fashion.