Michael A. Kahn is the award-winning author of several novels, praised by Publishers Weekly for their intelligent, breezy dialogue and clever plotting. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Mr. Kahn began his literary career writing free-lance feature articles for Chicago Magazine while teaching fifth grade in the Chicago public schools. Now a trial attorney in St. Louis, he wrote his first novel on a dare from his wife, who got sick of hearing him announce, each time he finished a paperback thriller that he d purchased at an airport newsstand, I could write a better book than