Irving's scheme – pretending to write the authorized biography of Howard Hughes – made the writer a household word, and rich... until Hughes called him on it. A tale of daring, treachery, and corruption. The movie stars RichardGere and Alfred Molina. "Barrett is remarkably convincing... [He] makes this book about a bogus book as hair-raising, breathlessly paced, and suspenseful as any spy novel."—AudioFile