TEMPTATION

Like all would-be Hollywood screenwriters, David Armitage wants to be richand famous. But for the past eleven years, he's tasted nothing butfailure. Then, out of nowhere, big-time luck comes his way when one of hisscripts is bought for television - and before you can say ‘overnightsuccess', he's the new toast of Hollywood as the creator of a hit series.Suddenly a ‘player' in Tinsel Town, he finds that he's reinventinghimself at great speed - especially when it comes to walking out on hiswife and daughter for a young producer who worships only at the altar ofambition. But David's upward mobility takes a decidedly strange turn whena billionaire film buff named Philip Fleck barges into his life, proposinga very curious collaboration. David takes the bait, and suddenly findshimself inadvertently entering into a Faustian Pact, and an express rideto the lower depths of the Hollywood jungle.