Como cualquier guionista de Hollywood, David Armitage aspira convertirse en rico y famoso para huir de la mediocridad de su vida. Cuando est? a punto de dar por muerta su carrera, se produce el milagro: la televisi?n compra uno de sus guiones y se convierte en un rotundo ?xito. Pasado un tiempo, el millonario Philip Fleck le propone ir a su isla privada para trabajar en un nuevo gui?n cinematogr?fico. David se lleva una desagradable sorpresa cuando descubre que se trata de uno de sus propios guiones, escrito unos a?os antes, copiado palabra por palabra. Furioso, David se niega a colaborar con el millonario. Pero su decisi?n le costar? cara…***«?Esto es una novela!: flechazos, dilemas, pesares, y la certeza de que el ?xito se conjuga siempre con el condicional o el imperfecto.» Le Figaro.
Douglas Kennedy's new novel demonstrates once again his talent for writing serious popular fiction. and were both bestsellers in paperback.That was the year my life fell apart, and that was the year I moved to Paris.When Harry Ricks arrives in Paris on a bleak January morning he is a broken man. He is running away from a failed marriage and a dark scandal that ruined his career as a film lecturer in a small American university. With no money and nowhere to live, Harry swiftly falls in with the city's underclass, barely scraping a living while trying to finish the book he'd always dreamed of writing. A chance meeting with a mysterious woman, Margit Kadar, with whom Harry falls in love, is his only hope of a brighter future. However, Margit isn't all she seems to be and Harry soon has to make a decision that will alter his life forever.
