Pronzini makes people and events so real that you’re living those explosive days of terror. -Robert Ludlum As we follow Rex Sackett ( The Metaphor Kid ) on his way to the top in that great spectator sport of the future, hack-writing, we realize that this a fast-moving, ribald parody of the writing profession. From the moment the Head Editor waves his red flag to the second the typewriting stops and a victor is chosen, every reader will be cheering at the sidelines of Prose Bowl. Pronzini is the master of the shivery, spine-tingling it-could-happen suspense story. -Publishers Weekly