Hack

by Jeb Stewart Harrison

When a film producer arrives at the California Heritage Gallery to view Hack's paintings, he's accompanied by the artist's childhood sweetheart, a woman he hasn't seen in twenty years except in dreams, where she appears almost nightly, a heavenly image of beauty and light. Now Hack is overwhelmed with desire and despair, for she's the trophy wife of a rich man. What could she possibly see in a downtrodden, besotted artist? So, in a state of love struck dementia, he hatches an outlandish scheme to win her back: fake his own death, thereby driving up the value of his portfolio, and then under cover, continue to produce "undiscovered" work, get rich,and one day return to claim his true love, when they'll ride "Fat Boys" together into the sunset to live happily ever after. Even a loser can get lucky sometimes.

288 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 2012

About the author

I was born and raised in Kentfield, CA, just north of SF. Like many boomers (1955) I wanted to be a Beatle, and spent many years chasing that dream. Meanwhile, I got a job as a copywriter in the ad biz, had a family, made a living. Stories were always popping into my head, but I didn't start writing them down until my forties.

My debut novel, "Hack" was published by Harper Davis publishers in August 2012. My second novel, "The Healing of Howard Brown," was published in August, 2016 by Baby Bingus Books, and is the winner of the 2017 Independent Press and Firebird Award for Literary Fiction. My latest novel, "American Corporate", was published around Xmas 2018. In July 2021 Baby Bingus Books published "For Want of Grace - Collected Stories." I graduated from MFA Writing Program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA.


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