With this rollicking novel hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity, one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction.

Guy Carpenter is a regular guy, a family man, an obscure NASA scientist, when he is jolted out of his quiet life and summoned to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Through a turn of events as unlikely as it is inevitable, Guy finds himself compromised by scandal and romance, hounded by Hollywood, and agonizingly alone at the white-hot center of a firestorm ignited as three potent forces of American culture -- politics, big science, and the media -- spectacularly collide.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 06/06/2005
ISBN: 9780316010856
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.56w x 0.79d

Review Citations: Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 74
Newsweek 04/19/2010 pg. 57