Out-of-work journalist Benjamin Justice lost his Pulitzer in disgrace when it was revealed that he had fabricated parts of his work -- a poignant series on AIDS fictionalized with details of his own lover's death. Now he's been given his first assignment in years, helping a fellow reporter pen an insider's look at the film industry. But as Justice reluctantly attends a B-list party to do research for the article, a guest is found dead in the garden -- and his demise seems anything but natural.

The victim is Raymond Farr, an unscrupulous Tinseltown wanna-be who clawed his way through town while making enemies left and right. Justice, ever the investigative journalist, searches the city for answers, from sun-splashed Palm Springs to the shadows of Beverly Hills. But in the corrupt Babylon that is Hollywood, the truth can be hard to come by...and a tarnished reporter hardly has a chance in hell of separating fact from fiction -- and the true story from true peril.

In Hollywood, many people would kill for a movie deal, and in "Revision of Justice"--the scathing follow-up to John Morgan Wilson's Edgar Award-winning first novel--somebody does.
There's a Hollywood one never gets to see on Oscar night, the Hollywood of wannabes, has-beens, and never-weres. It's this hidden Hollywood that Benjamin Justice finds when he accompanies Alexandra Templeton--the go-getting young journalist he met in Wilson's previous novel, "Simple Justice"--to an open house at the home of the well-known teacher of screenwriting Gordon Cantwell. Templeton is on assignment, but the body she finds in Cantwell's garden isn't part of her story, and Justice suspects that the death isn't natural, either.
The dead man is Raymond Farr, born Reza JaFari, and as it turns out, almost anyone at the party might have wanted him dead. The quintessential Hollywood deal maker, Farr's credentials were as phony as his name, and his scruples were as nonexistent as his credits. Justice--ever the investigative journalist, however reluctant--begins to nose around, and unearths a tangled web of relationships that lead him, finally, to the killer. Along the way he also reawakens a part of himself, the part he had kept buried, or preserved in alcohol, ever since the death of his lover from AIDS seven years before.
In "Revision of Justice," John Morgan Wilson expands his world beyond the borders of West Hollywood to explore the tarnished detritus of Tinseltown, and his hero, Benjamin Justice, expands his world as well, as he begins to open up to the feelings he had been trying so hard to deny.

"From the Hardcover edition."