Image Imperfect/Harper Affair

“A brash debut in the mystery field by a talented playwright .. Thanks for crossing over with The Cross Reports!”
- Byron Rupert McCafferty, Seattle Book Journal

Nick Cross is an investigative reporter who’s seen too much of the streets – too much crime, too much betrayal, too much death. So when the opportunity presents itself to trade the empty ugliness of the streets for the opulent luxury suites of the political campaign beat, Nick Cross jumps at it. But there’s more to Senator Jefferson Harper’s campaign than glad-handing and kissing babies, and Cross soon finds that the political games played in the posh suites of the rich and powerful can be as deadly as any game played on the mean streets he’s trying to leave behind. The Cross Reports are the play-by-play, behind-the-scenes chronicling of the most explosive stories Nick Cross has covered in over twenty years of reporting. Political power and illicit gambling collide in Image Imperfect. Richly cast with characters right out of today’s headlines, the story unfolds at the pace of a man with a deadline, whose cynical eye and jugular instincts barely keep him one step ahead of those who are trying to stop him.

Bob Bowersox holds a Professional Programs MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA, and holds Certificates in Screenwriting and Playwriting from Gotham Writer’s in New York. His first stage play, Going Again, won the Distinguished Playwright Award from the Wilmington Drama League in his previous hometown of Philadelphia. His latest plays, Person of Interest, Moment of Grace, The Signature of Fear, The Return, and Under The Hunter’s Moon received their World Premieres on the award-winning professional stage of Key West’s Red Barn Theatre, where Bob serves as Resident Playwright. He’s also authored eight screenplays, several of which have been award recipients in prestigious competitions, including the Nicholl Fellowships, the Austin Film Festival, and the American Screenwriting Awards, among several others. Three of his scripts have been optioned for production, with two of them currently in development. Image Imperfect is his first piece of long fiction and marks the first novel in the Nick Cross series.