The bookmakers

Mack Green has a million-dollar idea for his next novel: A burned-out writer with woman troubles and money woes agrees to commit suicide for a huge book advance. Mack's editor thinks it's a surefire idea too - but only as nonfiction. Which is where the troubles begin in The Bookmakers. The Bookmakers demonstrates Chafets's comic inventiveness and uncanny ability to hold readers in suspense while making them laugh out loud. This is a caper that takes wicked aim at the book industry, the pro-suicide crowd, high school heroes, and a too-hip-for-its-own-good contemporary Cosa Nostra that aspires…