From one of the foremost experts in the country on intellectual property law, a gripping legal thriller of depth and complexity
Doubleday
July 2006
320 pages
ISBN: 0385517173
Hardcover
$24.95
Suspense, Thriller Legal
Meet Michael Seeley, defender of artists’ rights, take-no-
prisoners intellectual property litigator—and a man on the
brink of personal and career collapse. So when United
Pictures virtually demands that he fly out to Hollywood to
confirm legally that they own the rights to their
corporate cash-cow franchise of Spykiller films, he has
little choice but to comply. What Michael Seeley discovers in these gilded precincts
will plunge him headfirst into the tangle of politics of
the blacklisting era and then into the even darker world
of Nazi-occupied Poland. He’ll encounter Mayer Bermann,
the steely Polish émigré who founded United Pictures—and
who may lose control of it to a ruthless conglomerate;
Bert Cobb, the putative author of the original Spykiller
screenplay; Harry Devlin, the flamboyant defender of
Hollywood writers who has his own secrets; and Julia
Walsh, an alluring young USC film scholar whose research
may hold the key to the mystery of Spykiller's true
authorship. As the pressure mounts for Seeley to confirm
United Pictures’s ownership of the franchise, Seeley must
face down his own demons and finally travel to Munich to
confront the reclusive novelist Max Kanarek, who fled
Hollywood decades before and whose boyhood link to Mayer
Bermann is the tantalizing missing piece of the puzzle.
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