QUESTIONS FOR A DEAD ANCHORMAN:
A Novel

Las Vegas television director, Mayne Crittenden is in a tough spot. His closest friend, the city's best-loved anchorman, is dead at 36. Now Mayne is facing a cancer diagnosis of his own and that's not the worst of it. Mayne's boss lies awake at night dreaming up elaborate schemes to fire him, his friends are all basket cases and no self-respecting woman will have anything to do with him. The raucous journey Mayne's life takes from there is the basis for Brian Leopold's novel Questions for a Dead Anchorman.

The book is, at once, wickedly humorous, emotionally charged and achingly poignant, as life throws one surprise after another at Mayne, leaving him no time to consider his own mortality and its meaning. Along the way, Mayne crosses paths with a menagerie of memorable Vegas characters, including a 400-pound entertainment correspondent with an ego as big as his body, a four-fingered Mafia Don who dreams of being the next Jay Leno and a six-foot-two showgirl with no eyelashes who yearns to be just an ordinary girl.

Questions for a Dead Anchorman gives readers a behind-the-scenes look into a world of showrooms, casinos and television studios as Mayne's dead anchorman friend continues to complicate his life, even from beyond the grave.

Emmy Award-winning Author Leopold's insight into the television business is insightful, yet self-depreciating as Mayne's fate becomes unwittingly entwined in the News stories he is covering. The novel races at breakneck speed through a series of Mafia plots, romantic entanglements, car explosions and ruined lives with Mayne struggling to hold on for dear life and make sense of it all.

Questions for a Dead Anchorman is an eye-opening, roller coaster journey, outwardly entertaining, but ultimately, providing food for thought about the mysteries of life and how it's lived.