Book Synopsis

Title: "Haze"

Author: Tim Kane

OVERVIEW: "Haze - The Scoops of Newspaper Reporter Harry Webber" follows an

investigation led by a nearly burnt-out journalist in a small New England industrial city

where a rebellious fraternity is pitted against the realities of a freak death, college

president obsessed with major campus expansion, and dirty mobsters.

SYNOPSIS: "Haze" opens featuring the now banned pledging antics of an outcast

off-campus college fraternity. Pledge Chad Montgomery accidentally dies at the hands

of his future brothers out in the woods one night during a freak hazing incident. The

always conflicting fraternity President Doug Fairbanks and Pledgemaster Frank

Patterson, advised by their pesky know-it-all law student brother Neil Tuttle, feel

devastated but quickly concoct plans to conceal the death forever. Little do they know

their coverup - made possible by two naive brothers who agree to act as independent

witnesses of Chad's death - isn't the only plot brewing. Chad's death occurs on campus

property and is quickly covered up by Brineburg State College President Herbert

Peabody, and his gangster brother, Lucky. Peabody, a classic narcissist blinded by

power, is obsessed with a massive $350 million planned campus expansion while Lucky

stems to profit illegally off the project.