Fed up with current state of popular fiction, literary critic ERVING DEBOER targets HOWARD VAUGHN, author of the latest 'unworthy' bestseller. Another scathing review of Vaughn's novel ignored, DeBoer resorts to kidnapping the author outside a book signing. DeBoer tortures Vaughn-critiquing his novel while he threatens his life-and in doing so, finds himself entangled in the type of formulaic, pulp-plotting that makes Vaughn's novel so detestable.