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I was asked to rewrite David Rabe’s adaptation of John Grisham’s bestselling novel, The Firm.  My draft attracted Tom Cruise and, later, Sydney Pollack, who I worked with for six weeks on a new draft, but I had to leave the project because of a prior commitment on another project.  The great Robert Towne came in and helped Sydney make the film his own.  When the time came to arbitrate for credits I decided not to participate.  My agents thought I was crazy.  But I think credits should accoun...

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LitReactor Staff Picks: The Best Books of 2014

December 18, 2014

‘Fifty Mice’ by Daniel Pyne: A guy gets drugged and whisked away into the witness protection program for reasons he cannot fathom. Do they have the wrong guy? Does he just not remember why he needs protection? Is what he experiences even real?

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Pyne, Daniel. Fifty Mice. Blue Rider. Jan. 2015. 304p. ISBN 9780399171642. $26.95; ebk. ISBN 9780698168701. F

Jay Johnson is floating through life; if pressed, he would probably say that happiness has been elusive. After all, being alive isn’t the same as living. Things take a drastic turn for Jay when he’s placed into the witness protection program very much against his will and whisked away to an enclave on Catalina Island, populated with program people and a gaggle of federal agents. They c...

January 16, 2015 at 7:00 pm

Book Soup

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Discussion and signing of FIFTY MICE. For more information:http://www.booksoup.com/dan-pyne-2015

January 16, 2015 at 7:00 pm
Book Soup
8818 W Sunset Blvd
West Hollywood, CA
Discussion and signing of FIFTY MICE. For more information:http://www.booksoup.com/dan-pyne-2015

Issue: November 10

Fifty Mice

Dan Pyne, Author

At the start of this wonderfully paranoid jaunt through competing realities from Pyne (Twentynine Palms), Jay Johnson, an ordinary guy, is abducted at a Los Angeles subway station. A deputy U.S. marshal known as Public later informs him that he’s in the Federal Witness Protection Program because of a murder investigation. While Jay claims ignorance, it becomes apparent that his memories are easily forgotten, manipulated, or invented. He’s given a fa...