Adrienne: The Chaos of Desire contains has some violence and sexual content but is not salacious or prurient. It picks up where Couper's second novel, The Book of Job Revisited, leaves off. Book I: The Maquisard, speaks of an era of chaos that began with the Asturias miners' strike of 1934 and relationships born of Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Franco Regime of post-war Spain. The violence, intrigue, and betrayal of the era gave birth to the next generation. Book II: The Tyranny of Chaos, continues the story of post-war prosperity and a generation split between the values of their parents and dissipation of drug addiction and nihilism featured in the marriage between the addict, Adrienne Fournier, and Nick Baker, a borderline psychopath. Adrienne courageously struggles with abuse and alcoholism. Kidnapped by a Tijuana drug trafficker, her former lover Max McGee and his fellow cab driver, Jimbo, become involved in a climatic rescue along with her husband, Nick, and godfather, Alesandro.
