From Roger L. Simon， author of The Big Fix， comes his best Moses Wine novel yet -- a hilarious， dark thriller set in the movie world. DIRECTOR S CUT A quarter of a century after he first appeared in the now-classic The Big Fix， Moses Wine remains a private investigator par excellence. Still a Berkeley radical at heart， Moses is now thoroughly chastened by the events that have led to the war on terrorism -- so much so that he s started to find himself agreeing with John Ashcroft， which for Moses is like saying that the Grateful Dead were overrated. Then the call comes -- a film crew in Prague keeps finding hate messages on the set and in their hotel rooms， and it s Moses s job to find out who s trying to shut the movie down. In a twist of fate that might only happen to a man like Wine， the director of the film gets knocked off a bridge by a runaway truck， and Moses agrees to take over -- Moses Wine is an auteur! But there are obstacles: The costars， the sexy Donna Gold and the brooding Goran， can t decide whether to kill each other or have an affair; Moses s wife has a surprise for him; Moses keeps finding himself in places he really shouldn t be; the CIA seems interested in the film， and that s a first; and a guy who resembles the Michelin Man keeps turning up with threats of violent destruction. Clearly something more is at stake than an art-house film， and things turn deadly serious when the threat of terrorism appears at the screening of the film -- Moses has to race to save not only the movie， but the whole of the Sundance festival， too. Roger L. Simon has been delighting fans of smart thrillers for a quarter century. This time it s the movie world s turn to get the Roger L. Simon treatment， and Director s Cut shows him at the height of his powers -- skewering our mores and making us laugh out loud.