Betwixt And Between

A must read for anyone who loves movies and movie dialog. A fictitious hero struggles against NYC mobsters and corrupt police to find the author who created them. Johnny Marathon awakens in New York City with no memory, only a soul-deep desire to track down a lover he cannot remember. Cryptic clues, strange dreams and an annoying homeless man reveal to Johnny he is a fictitious hero in a novel being written by Judd Myrvin, a clueless writer whose undisciplined writing skills have trapped Johnny and his cast of supporting characters in literary purgatory.
Johnny's only hope to regain his memory and his love is to find and convince his creator to stop controlling his characters, to let them be who they are. But Johnny is not alone in his quest. The story's supporting characters include two rival mob bosses, a voluptuous hit-woman and corrupt NYC police, each determined to extract Judd's name and address from Johnny for their own selfish means. To escape purgatory and find salvation, Johnny must track down his creator before his pursuers.
Through one misadventure after another, Johnny finds Judd, only to be cornered in the writer's apartment by an epic shootout between the mobsters and the NYPD. The shootout ends with the meanest cop in control. He orders the writer to make him the story's hero but Judd refuses to listen to the cop, to Johnny or any of his characters, leaving them all betwixt and between, or are they?