The Accident, Pavone - B +

                                               Chris Pavone rocketed to fame a few years ago with his first book, 'The Expats'.  He had spent twenty years in the NYC book business, was the classic insider, and  was then suddenly a new novelist, because he had gone to Brussels with his successful  and well-known wife.  He wrote about a cabal of expatriates and had a big hit on his hands. Here, he thoroughly explores New York, its writers, editors, agents, and publishers, as he has built a fabulous tale around an anonymous submission.  The book at the center of the novel is the purported true story of Charlie Wolfe, sort of a cross between your favorite love to dislike Fox News personalities and the man behind the cable news network that made news politicized  entertainment.  Wolfe is not to be trifled with as his dad was a deputy director of the CIA and he's about as well-connected as you can imagine.  Part of the reason for Wolfe's success is a long-term relationship with a fella who may or may not still be in the CIA. The CIA man has been feeding Wolfe information about politicians and others for years. Wolfe has parlayed that information into big time cable success and the CIA man has a substantial Swiss bank account.  The author of the book marked as 'Anonymous' is Wolfe's right hand man, who after twenty-years of deceit and worse has decided to fake his own death and write an anonymous tell-all. The problem is that Wolfe is well prepared for the submission to hit the street in NY and all of a sudden everyone who touches the book is in perilous danger.  As the book gets copied and passed around, bodies are dropping from one coast to the other.  The author devises a surprising plot twist at the end of the book, that I suspect will be a very big seller.