A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University's
Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five
million dollars. Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa
on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money though as a prominent dealer in rare
books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books
and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has
recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant mysterious
woman working for an even more mysterious company. A generous offer of money convinces Mercer
to go undercover and infiltrate Bruce Cable's circle of literary friends ideally getting close
enough to him to learn his secrets. But eventually Mercer learns far too much and there's
trouble in paradise as only John Grisham can deliver it.
