Fiction. "FINAL EXAM dazzles from the first page and intrigues from the first shrewd twist of its plot. It is a superb mystery novel...a superb evocation of a unique place at a dangerous time, and of people whose lives hang suddenly in the balance. The suspense is carefully and smartly calibrated, but what makes FINAL EXAM singular is its tough and witty portrait of an academic community under siege.... Like some of my favorite movies, FINAL EXAM uses a classic genre and twists it into something new and compelling and memorable."—Martin Scorsese

Author City: GAMBIER, OH USA

Novelist, journalist and teacher, P. F. Kluge is Writer in Residence at Kenyon College. His six previous novels include Eddie and the Cruisers and Biggest Elvis. His nonfiction books include The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia and Alma Mater, an account of a year in the life of Kenyon College. Two films, Dog Day Afternoon and Eddie and the Cruisers, have been based on his work. His journalism appears in National Geographic Traveler, where he is a contributing editor, and elsewhere. A native of Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, Kluge lives in Gambier, Ohio, with his wife, Pamela Hollie.