Jake Reed is a mid-list novelist who gets bored with his own hero. The hero is also named Jake. One afternoon the writer ends the book with a sudden car crash, types “The End,” and drives to Starbucks to meet his publisher. On the way, he dies in the same stupid crash.He wakes in a courtroom built from leftover scenes. Every character he ever invented is in the gallery. The charge is the unnecessary murder of his main character. The plaintiff is Jake himself.Two discarded c...