Director: A Novel David Avallone Jane is certain that he

Jane is certain that he is innocent

The Book of the Most Precious Substance is an addictive erotic thriller about the lengths we'll go to get what we need-and what we want

Faced with the choice between saving themselves or catching the crooks

With a keen photographer's eye

Director: A Novel David Avallone Jane is certain that heA Late Show with Stephen Colbert Book Club Pick Nothing short of brilliant. The Wall Street Journal From a surpassingly gifted storyteller (The New York Times), a visionary novel inspired by the life of film director G. W. Pabst, who fled to Hollywood to resist the Nazis only to return to his homeland to create propaganda films for the German Reich. An artist's life, a pact with the devil, and the dangerous illusions of the silver screen. G. W. Pabst,