In March of 1990, Tom Cruise was in Florence, South Carolinafilming a little racing movie called Days of Thunder. He had also justreceived his first Oscar nomination for playing the starring role of Ron Kovicin Born on the 4th of July.

NBC’s Today Show contacted a local news station inColumbia, South Carolina and rented its satellite truck to conduct an interviewwith Tom Cruise about the nomination and his reaction to it at a hotel inFlorence.

Little did Tom know that innocuous action triggered anunderhanded plot directed at the movie icon. But I was there, on that crew. Whathappened next, after decades of secrecy, is detailed in this novel, Delayed Confession, and it’s all true. Only the names have been changed to protect theinnocent and the truly stupid.