The Lost Man

A faded star. An obsessive fan. And a fateful encounter on a dark canyon road. Chris Gable, a once successful but now struggling B-list Hollywood actor, has let his life and career spiral out of control after the death of his young daughter and several years of unemployment. He's an alcoholic and an unfaithful husband on the verge of losing everything, and he’s praying for a second chance. Enter Jack Webb, a humble, enigmatic man from Arizona who claims to be one of Chris’s biggest fans. A chance late night encounter on a lonely canyon road--during which Jack throws Chris a lifeline after a drunken car accident--brings these two men together. A bond forms. A friendship develops. At first, Jack seems a Godsend--a true pal, a sincere fan, maybe even a guardian angel. Chris's luck soon begins to change. Obstacles that kept him from finding work miraculously disappear. His career and life rebound. But this good fortune comes with a price, and as Jack's true psychotic and homicidal nature emerges, Chris is pulled into a nightmare of horror and bloodshed from which there may be no escape. From Josh Griffith—author of the Jason Chance mystery novels (THIS LONELY TOWN, THIS SECRET TOWN, THIS FAITHLESS TOWN, and THIS ANGEL TOWN), THE FORGOTTEN PLACE, and RUN LIKE HELL, as well as co-author (with Michael Malone) of the NY Times bestselling mystery novel, THE KILLING CLUB—comes a powerful psychological thriller