Jump/cut A novel Author:Brendan Howley Cut to the quick: a fast-paced, international thriller of cinematic proportions.Brendan Howley has created a novel wound tighter than a fresh film reel -- and just as darkly smooth.Jump/Cut(the term is a cinematic reference to a switch of scene) is his new international thriller set in the film and theater worlds of New York, Cannes, Lond... more »on, Budapest and Warsaw.On the eve of the premiere staging of his hit Broadway play, The Cherry Orchard, Marek Komorowski's assistant director Michael Bron is murdered, shot through the eye in a West Village alley.Packed with fierce action, propelled by ambition, blinded by politics and underpinned by a killer's terrible vengeance, Jump/Cut is a lean and muscular thriller, its core a son's knotted quest into the complexities of the human heart.« less