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After 50 years as a practicing clinical psychologist, I have turned my attention to writing fiction. I have published several psychologically based novels and screenplays based on my experiences. My mission has been to help people maximize their potential and achieve their goals. Now, through my fiction writing, I hope to continue this mission and reach a larger audience. The stories I tell are all based on my years of practice. Each story deals with another aspect of the human condition.
Reviewed by Sarah Stuart for Readers' Favorite
The four “buddies” featured in Edward A. Dreyfus’ novel entitled Buddies first met as ten-year-old schoolboys who swore an oath of friendship and secrecy. Over two decades later, all currently living in Manhattan, they hold a reunion of their secret “club”, where they decide to keep in touch. Wives meet… they play racquetball… Enter Argentinian Raul Cabrera, a wealthy businessman who imports and exports antiquities. The four buddies fall for Raul’s sexy, provocative Brazilian wife, Sasha, each convinced that he is the only man she loves, and believing her story that Raul deals in drugs and her life is in danger. During a party at Raul and Sasha's penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park, Raul falls from the balcony and the police investigation reveals that it is Sasha who runs a drug cartel. For Sasha, the buddies sacrifice friendship, careers, and marriages, but which of them will be charged with Raul’s murder, and is any one of them guilty?
Initially, Edward A. Dreyfus introduces Roy, Billy, Sam and Joey in depth, and they are very different: Joey is unmarried, and slower to trust their new friend, Raul. Sasha makes her entrance, a sensual star against the glittering Manhattan skyline. Sasha targets all four men, but her insatiable appetite for sex wanders much further, though all the married men behaving out of character at the same time appears to rule out affairs, in the opinion of their wives. Sasha? Her childhood made her what she is, and she is a manipulative woman who invites pain if it serves her purpose. Buddies contains explicit scenes bordering on erotica woven into a psychological thriller by a very accomplished author.
