Finished: The Plot (Korelitz) Another page-turner, hard to put down! Jake Bonner is a writer who has had one best-selling novel, and now floundered for the few years afterwards unable to get another best-seller penned or anything even accepted by a publisher. He now teaches a creative writing seminar every summer. When an overly cocky, very unpleasant student, Evan Parker, lays out the plot of his "sure thing" novel he intends to write, Jake completely deflates. He knows immediately that Evan's novel, when he writes it, will definitely be a best-selling, national book tour, Oprah list book that will most certainly be made into a movie by an A-list director. (All the things that Evan has bragged that it will be.) Three years after the seminar, Jake googles Evan to see if he ever wrote that book. He knows it would have been big news if it had been written. Jake finds out that Evan died just a few months after the seminar, and that he never wrote his book! It doesn't take Jake long to convince himself to write the book. The plot is too good to never be written. He doesn't use a single line from the few pages of writing sample that Evan had shown him. He writes the complete story on his own, but he does steal the exact plot. And, as Evan and Jake both predicted, the book becomes all those things...Steven Spielberg is even making the movie! Jake is now flying high on never-ending book tours and tv interviews when he gets a very simple email message one day. "You are a thief." Messages like that continue to escalate to Jake, and the mysterious sender even creates twitter and facebook accounts to accuse Jake of plagerizing Evan Parker. What ensues is a journey that Jake puts himself on to learn about how Evan died and if he'd told anyone else about the plot of his book. We learn exactly where Evan came up with his plot, a real life story he partially lived himself. And, we learn what possible family member of Evan's may still be alive that is sending the messages to Jake. Definitely a book that I had to read all the way through to the end in one day to see exactly what was going on! :-)