In his high-powered debut novel, award-winning Hollywood screenwriter Roy Johansen takes readers into the precarious existence of Ken Parker, a down-and-out lie detector operator who accepts a deadly bribe to teach a beautiful lawyer's client to beat the machine he knows so well. Known as the Answer Man, Parker is a master at catching lies and uncovering subterfuge. Now that the violence is rapidly closing in on him, his special talents may never be more handy.