Beast of Love

by Alec Klein

"You're a drunk, you're a womanizer, you're lazy-" I raise an index finger."A point of clarification," I note."What?" "You forgot Godless." "And you can't take anything seriously," she steams."Thank you," I say, tipping a hat that isn't there.And so it goes between Miles and Sunny, warring next-door neighbors in an uproarious comedy about the urban mating ritual. Miles, a public relations executive in Chicago, is a slothful Lothario who relishes his self-image as a dishonest, shallow and vain anti-hero. Sunny, though, forces him to reconsider all of that. Along the way, Miles concocts an elaborate PR scheme, ventures into the wilderness and finds himself attached to the leash of an unwanted mutt. There's only one way to extricate himself. Can he change, even if he doesn't mean to?

232 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2006

About the author

Alec Klein is an award-winning reporter at The Washington Post. His previous book, Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner, was a national bestseller that The New York Times called "a compelling parable of greed and power and hubris." He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter.