Plot Yuki Fumino Seventeen-year-old Mickey James III is

Seventeen-year-old Mickey James III is a college freshman

but through a series of extraordinary events

Crackling with intelligence and wit

Following the trail of a dismembered corpse

a surge of overwhelming and unpreventable deaths

Plot Yuki Fumino Seventeen-year-old Mickey James III is** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ** The Tonight Show Summer Reads Winner ** A New York Times Notable Book of the Year** "Insanely readable." Stephen King Hailed as "breathtakingly suspenseful," Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Plot is a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it. Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third rate MFA program