Checkpoint
By: Nicholson Baker.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9781400044009
Subjects: Presidents -- Assassination -- Fiction.; Male friendship -- Fiction.; Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Jay has summonded his old friend Ben to a hotel room not far from the nation's capitol. During the course of an afternoon, they will share a delicious lunch and will crack open a bottle of wine from the hotel minibar. They will chat about everything from Ben's new camera to Iraq to the unfortunate fate of a particular free-range chicken." "And Jay will explain to Ben exactly why and how he is planning to commit a murder that will change the course of history."--BOOK JACKET.