Who doesn't wonder now and again about how differently their life could have turned out? Who doesn't dream of a more interesting, more adventurous, more dangerous past they could have had? Ben Dibbuk is married to the beautiful Mona, has a lovely daughter and a good job in NYC - but he's been locked in this dream for more years than he can say. Still, nothing can prepare Ben for his chance meeting with Star, a mysterious woman at a launch for the hip magazine Diablerie; for Star claims to share a gruesome secret that Ben just can't remember. Has Star spun a diabolical web of lies, or could it be that something really did happen back in 1979? As Ben's grip on the truth begins to falter, the line between how things really turned out, and how they might have done, becomes harder and harder to negotiate in this slippery tale of dark secrets and silent desires. Walter Mosley, creator of sometime-fixer Easy Rawlins who appeared in classic thrillers such as Devil in a Blue Dress, and recently the shocking but deliciously scandalous Killing Johnny Fry, is one of former US president Bill Clinton's favourite authors.