The Follower Jason Starr St. Martin's ISBN 0-312-35974-8 HC $23.95 August 07

Katie Porter is a young career woman living in New York City. She alternately hates and loves her job, her dating situation, the city, her friends, her parents and her looks. In short she's just like the rest of us. Peter Wells isn't just like the rest of us. When Jason Starr gets these two characters together his crackling dialog and tension building pacing make his latest novel, The Follower, a highly charged read. There's murder, sex, talk of sex, and toward the end, some action but as mentioned it's Starr's way with the way we speak and his manipulation of the situations we find ourselves in that make The Follower worth looking for.

Dave Biemann