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Plot Summary of The Up and Comer
"THE UP AND COMER centers on an up and coming senior associate at an exclusive law firm in NYC named Philip Randall. Ostensibly, Randall has the whole shebang in his back pocket and even a few advantages and luxuries in his front pockets. Even with the brilliant mind, upwardly mobile professional appointment, adoring boss, beautiful wife, and bulging bank account, he feels somehow incomplete. For this reason, Randall seeks his best friend's wife. The is the catalyst for a web of blackmail, deceit, and murder into which the otherwise sterling personality of Mr. Randall is sucked. "
Gray George, Resident Scholar

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Plot
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Time/era of story - present (2000-2010)
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Kind of romance: - playing footsy while inconveniently married
Life of a profession: - lawyer creature
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Job/Profession/Status story Yes

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - a lawyer creature
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - unemployed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an average amount
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 4 (a fair amount)
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - very explicit references to deaths and torture
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - actual description of hetero sex - descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
Unusual Style: - a lot of stream of consciousness
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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