Jack Dana, a star student at Yale, joins the military after 9/11--only to have sniper fire cut short his career as a Marine Corps infantry officer. While recovering at Walter Reed Hospital, he begins to write a novel about his wartime experience. Jack's uncle Harry, a surrogate father to him, as well as a partner at a leading New York law firm, helps Jack secure a publisher.
Jack is thrilled when his book becomes a huge success, but after a celebratory trip to South America, Jack returns home to shocking news: Uncle Harry is dead, found hanged in his summer home. Horrified and incredulous, Jack digs into the facts surrounding the tragedy and comes to believe that his uncle's death was no suicide. Delays of law are not for Jack, so he takes matters into his own hands--embarking on a dangerous journey of justice and revenge.
Look for all of Louis Begley's gripping Jack Dana thrillers:
KILLER, COME HITHER - KILL AND BE KILLED - KILLER'S CHOICE
Louis Begley's previous novels are Memories of a Marriage, Schmidt Steps Back, Matters of Honor, Shipwreck, Schmidt Delivered, Mistler's Exit, About Schmidt, As Max Saw It, The Man Who Was Late, and Wartime Lies, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
"Louis Begley's award-winning fiction usually takes on bad behavior among the well-bred and prosperous. Killer, Come Hither ratchets up the intrigue--and the evil."--The Wall Street Journal
"Begley writes clean, crisp, graceful prose, the kind that's always rare and ever a blessing."--The Washington Post
"Killer, Come Hither beckons."--Vanity Fair
"Combines unexpected plot twists and narrative tension with Begley's trademark elegant prose."--Shelf Awareness