La trama

When a young writer dies before completing his first novel, his teacher, a failed novelist, decides to continue the plot. The resulting book is a phenomenal success. But what if someone else knows? And if the impostor can't figure out who he's dealing with, he risks something far worse than losing his career. Jacob Finch Bonner was a promising young writer whose first novel was a respectable success. Today, he is teaching at a third-rate writing program and struggling to maintain what little dignity he has left; he hasn't written, let alone published anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, tells Jake that he doesn't need his help to continue his novel because he thinks the plot of his book-in-progress is great, Jake dismisses him as a typical narcissist. amateur. But then... he hears the plot. Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and prepares for the publication of Evan Parker's first novel: but that never happens. Jake discovers that his former student has died, presumably without completing his book, and he does what any writer worth his salt would do with a story like that: a story that absolutely needs to be told. In just a few short years, all of Evan Parker's predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the success. He is rich, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, he receives an email, the first threat in a terrifying anonymous campaign: You are a thief, the email says.