Temptation: Douglas Kennedy

Like all would-be Hollywood screenwriters, David Armitage wants to be rich and famous. But for the past eleven years, it's just been all failure. Then out of nowhere, big-time luck comes his way when one of his scripts is bought for television - and before you can say 'overnight success' he's the new toast of Hollywood as the creator of a hit series. Now a player in Tinsel Town, he reinvents himself at great speed and walks out on his wife and daughter for a young producer who worships only at the altar of ambition. David's upward mobility takes a very strange turn when a billionaire film buff named Philip Fleck barges into his life to propose a very curious collaboration. David takes the bait and finds himself inadvertently entering a Faustian Pact - and an express ride to the lower depths of the Hollywood Jungle.