A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, impossible to resist. Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in unsavory ventures.

Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer’s block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious woman working for an even more mysterious company. A generous monetary offer convinces Mercer to go undercover and infiltrate Cable’s circle of literary friends, to get close to the ringleader, to discover his secrets.

But soon Mercer learns far too much, and there’s trouble in paradise—as only John Grisham can deliver it.


一幫竊賊在普林斯頓大學燧石圖書館地下書庫合力上演一場大膽的偷竊行動。他們偷走了價值連城的手稿。布魯斯．凱堡擁有一家受歡迎的書店，位於寂靜的渡假勝地——佛羅里達州卡米諾島上的聖羅莎。但很少人知道他可觀的收入實際上是來自珍本書的交易。

梅莎．曼是一位遭遇寫作瓶頸的作家，不久前遭解聘教職。一位在神祕機構工作的優雅女士找上了她。她以優渥的酬勞說服梅莎潛入調查凱堡的文友社交圈，一步一步向竊賊靠近，並且挖掘凱堡的秘密。

然而隨著梅莎發現的越多，危險也離她越來越近。只有約翰．葛里遜的小說才能呈現如此精彩刺激的劇情。