In this breakthrough second novel, Matt Bloom (Blue Paradise) exposes the follies and foibles of New York's rich and famous in their favorite summer playground.In case you didn't know that Satan is a movie producer, Hell is a certain nightclub in Southampton, and doing well on Wall Street means the sale of your immortal soul, A Death in the Hamptons is the book that will show you the light.This fascinating and entertaining modern fable takes place over the course of one scorching hot summer on the fashionable end of Long Island. When down-and-out fisherman Andrew Kane is given the chance to sell his soul to the devil in return for fame and fortune, he gets to find out what life is really like for the Hamptons elite. At first, it seems like a bargain, but Kane soon realizes that, without a soul, he can't really appreciate the glamorous life of a movie star -- or the conquest of the woman he loves.With dark humor and wicked satire, A Death in the Hamptons follows Andrew Kane to the mouth of Hell and back as he fights the devil in the fishing contest to end all fishing contests.From the polo fields of Southampton to the bar of the American Legion Hall, Bloom details the lives and loves of the rich and not-so-rich in this intriguing roman a clef. With its shocking denouement, this will be the beach book of 2002.