After playing in a two-day chess tournament, John Berger arrives at work to find his office building bombed and several people killed. When questioned, he explains he was playing chess at the time of the explosion. Then comes a greater shock - the police tell him the chess tournament never took place. Thus begins a terrifying spiral of events. Berger becomes both the FBI's and the police's prime suspect in the bombing, and suddenly he finds himself hallucinating and losing his grip on reality. After someone tries to kill him with a bomb in his own home, he goes on the run...
Donald S. Passman is the author of All You Need To Know About the Music Business and a graduate of the University of Texas and Harvard Law School. He practices law with the Los Angeles firm of Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman and has specialized in the music business for more than forty years.