Barely noticed in the daily mail,
the Fan s letters begin to come. At
first filled with love for the star he
worships, the letters soon change
into fantasies of intimacy with her.
Then, subtly, they become men-
acing, perverse, obscene-~and
they drawthe reader into a dazzling
thriller.
In his first novel the playwright
Bob Randall explores the night-
mare side of his own world--
Broadway and Hollywood--and
uncovers a devastating new mon-
ster of obsession and rage.
The Fan s targets are Sally Ross,
the bawdy, funny, aging Broadway
star, and her loving, tough-as-nails
secretary, Belle. Safe in their world
despite the letters, they joke, bat-
tle, and cling together against the
memory of lost loves, the reality of
life passing.
Then, one day, the letters stop
and the women are engulfed in ter-
ror. Belle is savagely knifed in a
subway station. There is a bizarre
attack on Sally s dressing room.
And all the while the Fan moves
closer, the tension escalates, the
nerve-racking suspense builds--
until the shocking, totally surpris-
ing end.
The novel unfolds through an
amazing correspondence full of