Book #1 of "The Noir Series," Life Noir is Kurt Michael Brundage's autobiographical memoir which chronicles his troubled life journey leading to the events of January 2010: The four-week relationship Kurt had with a former student while teaching high school English. The memoir reaches back twenty years -- chronicling Kurt's battles with himself, his many struggles, his few triumphs -- searching deep within himself, trying to find the nexus of his own villainy -- desperately seeking a new and better way to live his life.