Life was good for overweight lawyer William (Billy) Halleck until he accidentally hit a Gypsy woman jaywalking across a street who died from her injuries. Billy's trial was presided over by his friend, Judge Cary Rossington, who absolved Billy of any guilt. The dead woman's father, Taduz Lemke, felt that justice had not been served and takes things into his own hands by putting a curse on Billy by touching him and uttering a single word- "thinner." Billy begins to lose weight immediately and continues to do so until he becomes so thin that he begins to look like a walking skeleton. He takes a leave of absence from his job and sets out on the Gypsies' trail convinced that he can get Taduz to remove the curse if he could speak to him. However, things do not go as Billy Planned, and the ending takes the reader by surprise.
This book makes for good summer reading.
Reviewed by Suzanne Bertrand
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