Henry's List of Wrongs

by John Scott Shepherd

Overview

Ever wish you could go back and make it right? Henry's List of Wrongs is John Scott Shepherd's story of humor, romance, and sting, it might even make you confront your own list of regrets.

For anyone who ever wondered just what makes a man tick, Henry's List of Wrongs exposes the inner workings of the male mind, its carefully hidden motivations, desires, and fears. A story with humor, romance, and sting, it might even make you confront your own list of regrets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780743466257
Publisher:	Gallery Books
Publication date:	03/01/2003
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Author/screenwriter John Scott Shepherd, a native Clevelander and a deeply disturbed Browns fanatic, now lives in Southern California with his wife Susan and children Natalie, Jack, and Cooper.

What People are Saying About This

Kristin Hannah

A hip, brash, stylish page-turner with a surprising amount of heart. A combination of big city cool and midwestern morality, Henry's List Of Wrongs is a hard-edged, soft-centered look at how easily a man can go wrong in life... and how hard it can be to undo the past. John Scott Shepherd is a talented new voice in fiction. (Kristin Hannah, bestselling author of Summer Island)

Editorial Reviews

Red-hot screenwriter (one movie out, one in the can, six more in production) Shepherd takes a breather to bring out a first novel, a tale of redemption and romance about a Wall Street man of steel who crumbles mid-deal when his entire reason for being evaporates. Known on the Street and beyond as The Assassin, Henry Chase was actually a mild-mannered, going-nowhere teenager in nowhere Kansas until his unlikely prom date, the beautiful, going-somewhere Elizabeth, first seduces him and then tells him she can't see him anymore because he's a loser. Cut to the quick, Henry proves her wrong by leaving Kansas and making it big in New York, but when he returns ten years later to acquire the hotel owned by his chief rival for her affections, he learns that Elizabeth really dumped him because she knew she was going to die young of a heart defect. About to throw himself out a window of the hotel in despair, Henry is stopped by a wise-cracking housekeeper Sophie, who turns out to be a psychology grad student with a plan that will make Henry whole again. His List of Wrongs, prepared with Sophie's help, names those whose lives Henry destroyed on his way to the top, and he and Sophie cross the country to face each of them so that Henry can beg forgiveness. The first of Henry's former victims slugs him in the face; the second pulls out a gun and pretends to shoot him at point-blank range; the third drops a Bloody Mary (glass and all) on his head from a second-floor window; the fourth, a man twice Henry's age, beats him savagely in a squash match. But somehow every one of them forgives him, and Henry has the added blessing of falling in love with Sophie, who stands by him through it all. Unfortunately,as he learns when he goes back to Kansas to right the final wrong, Sophie is not quite what she seems: she's really an escapee from a mental hospital and a convicted murderer. Smooth as silk, there's no reason to think that this charming, sweet story will fail to find an audience ready and willing to lap it up. Author tour

Kirkus Reviews