<p align="left">Just how did Cal Cunningham -- a twenty-five-year-old bookstore stockboy who is new to Manhattan and who has never written anything -- publish a bestselling novel that sells to the movies for a million dollars?</p><p align="left">A mysterious roommate, a timely bike accident, and the rapacious literary agent Blackie Yaeger all play a role in Cal's success.</p><p align="left">Deception, blackmail, and murder all play a role in his desperate bid to hold on to it.</p><p align="left">And <i>About the Author</i> is his first-person account of how he performed this remarkable feat.</p>