Force Majeure

Bud Wiggins dreams of achieving fame as a screenwriter, and he almost made it. Now he finds himself free-falling through a world of absurdity and degradation. Surviving off the underbelly of Hollywood, moonlighting as a limo driver to pay the bills, and mingling sporadically with the industry's elite, Bud bears witness to the hilarity, horrors, mysteries and giddy paranoia of 'the Business'. Bruce Wagner's debut novel is a powerful black comedy that delivers readers to contemporary Hollywood's surreal fringes - a relentless and powerful saga that heralded the arrival of one of the most original and compelling writers working today.