"Pier 45" is coming out September 4, 2026 from JournalStone Publishing. When a drag queen rescues a brutalized teenage hustler in 1981 New York City, it ignites a decade-long saga of prostitution, heroin, AIDS, murder, and supernatural reckoning—told by a child of Holocaust survivors who carries the dead on his tattooed arm, and who is learning that just surviving isn’t always enough.
Richard Thomas, Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, and Thriller Award finalist, says "Pier 45 is a powerful, moving, important novel. A blend of The Basketball Diaries, Angels in America, and Requiem for a Dream, Scott Alderman has written a brutal, honest story that is not without humor and hope. 10/10."
