Once a promising novelist, Jacob Finch Bonner is now teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what is left of his self-respect. When Evan Parker -- his most arrogant student -- announces that the plot of the book he is working on is a sure thing, Jake dismisses it as typical amateur narcissism. But then...he hears the plot. Jake begins bracing himself for the book's release, but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died without publishing, Jake take the story for himself. In a few short years, Evan Parker's predictions have come true, with Jake as the author enjoying the success. 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.
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