In March of 1990, Tom Cruise was in Florence, South Carolina
filming a little racing movie called Days of Thunder. He had also just
received his first Oscar nomination for playing the starring role of Ron Kovic
in Born on the 4th of July.
NBC’s Today Show contacted a local news station in
Columbia, South Carolina and rented its satellite truck to conduct an interview
with Tom Cruise about the nomination and his reaction to it at a hotel in
Florence.
Little did Tom know that innocuous action triggered an
underhanded plot directed at the movie icon. But I was there, on that crew. What
happened next, after decades of secrecy, is detailed in this novel, Delayed Confession, and it’s all true. Only the names have been changed to protect the
innocent and the truly stupid.
