An In Cold Blood for our time, a chilling, compulsive story of a writer unwittingly caught in the wake of a grifter-turned-murderer.

WALTER KIRN is the author of eight books, including Thumbsucker and Up in the Air, both of which have been filmed. He graduated from Princeton in 1983 and has worked as a literary critic and essayist for New York Magazine and The New York Times Book Review, among countless other publications.