The Follower

Product Description
With each meaningless date and disappointing new boyfriend, Katie Porter is becoming more and more disillusioned. No matter how wide a net she casts, she cant seem to find a guy who really understands her. But someone thinks she's special—very special. And he's watching her.
Peter sees Katie at the gym. He sees her at the coffee bar she stops at on the way to work. In fact, he sees her almost everywhere, as he quietly trails her. But most of all, he sees her in his plans for the future. He has the proposal worked out; he even has the ring and their happy home already. After all, he's had enough time to plan things to perfection—he grew up in the same small town. Surely, after all these years, he can't let anything stand in his way....
From Publishers Weekly
Murder stalks a love triangle in New York City in Starr's low-key thriller, his most crowd-pleasing novel to date. Katie Porter believes her encounter at the health club with Peter Wells is total chance. What she doesn't know is that Peter once dated her sister back in her hometown and has elaborate plans to marry her, after waiting a couple of weeks for the perfect romantic moment to pop the question. And she doesn't have a clue that her current boyfriend, Andy Barnett, is ready to dump her. A twenty-three-year-old single guy in Manhattan, Andy is a male animal on the prowl, checking out all the action: The clothes were loose, but it looked like she had a nice body—thin anyway, which was all that really mattered. Starr (
Lights Out) is a master at capturing the minute-by-minute lives of vacuous yuppies, and he absolutely shines with these characters. When Peter decides he needs to eliminate the competition, this
Looking for Ms. Goodbar suddenly becomes a very funny, dark social satire.
(Aug.)
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Review
Peter Wells is rich, relatively good-looking and his hobbies include stalking his grown-up former grade school classmate, Katie, through the New York singles scene...Brooklyn-born author Jason Starr serves up a chilling yet humorous tale of obsession. --
New York Daily News, May 28, 2007

THE FOLLOWER is...this generation's LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR and crackling-hot beach read. --
The New York Post, March 25, 2007
From the Back Cover
In this electrifying novel by award-winning author Jason Starr, a single woman in New York City finds herself the object of a deadly obsession…
THE FOLLOWER
With each meaningless date and disappointing new boyfriend, Katie Porter is becoming more and more disillusioned. No matter how wide a net she casts she can't seem to find a guy who really understands her. But someone thinks she's special―very special. And he's watching her...
"A masterpiece."―Bret Easton Ellis
Peter sees Katie at the gym. He sees her at the coffee bar she stops at on the way to work. In fact, he sees her almost everywhere, as he quietly trails her. But most of all, he sees her in his plans for the future. He's got the proposal worked out, he's even got the ring and their happy home already bought. After all, he's had enough time to plan things to perfection―he grew up in the same small town. Surely, after all these years, he can't let anything stand in his way…
"This generation's Looking for Mr. Goodbar…crackling-hot."―The New York Post
From Booklist
Starr writes dark comedies about dim bulbs. Sometimes it works--
Lights Out (2006) featured an entertaining premise and a frantic pace--and sometimes it doesn't, which is the case here. Set in the party-hearty world of twentysomething Manhattanites,
The Follower offers a tepid premise (a stalker sets his sights on a shallow young woman[...]), formulaic satire (the characters say
like a lot and shop at Banana Republic), and uninspired delivery (the characters use cliches, and so does the author). It's a thriller with no thrills. If we cared about the characters, it mi