"Insanely readable." ―Stephen King
Hailed as "breathtakingly suspenseful," Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it.
Jacob
Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably
published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program
and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t
written―let alone published―anything decent in years. When Evan Parker,
his most arrogant student, announces he doesn’t need Jake’s help because
the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to
dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears
the plot.
Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own
career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker’s
first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former
student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does
what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that―a story
that absolutely needs to be told.
In a few short years, all of
Evan Parker’s predictions have come true, but Jake is the author
enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the
world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives,
the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says.
As
Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his
readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late
student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was
Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his “sure thing” of a
novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from
whom?
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