The star of this electrifying comic novel is world weary paranoidal Max Peiper, whose job as a big city reporter plunges him into a netherworld of terror and decadence. Armored only with his imaginative genius, his uncanny ability to unearth stories invisible to rival reporters, irrepressible Max blends the truth into dazzling bursts and returns with scoop after scoop. But when the governor of New York leaps, falls or is pushed from a suite atop the Waldorf Towers, Max suddenly finds his most frightening fantasies curdling into menacing reality.