Ben Novack, Jr. was born into a life of luxury and opulence. Heir to the legendary Fontainebleau hotel, he spent his childhood surrounded by some of the world's biggest stars, including Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, Elvis Presley, and Ann-Margret, who performed regularly at the Fontainebleau's La Ronde Room. He sat by while his parents entertained presidents and movie stars, as they reigned over Miami Beach in the ‘50's and ‘60's, and when the family business went sour he became wealthy in his own right, founding a multi-million dollar business using connections he made at the Fontainebleau. But Ben, Jr.'s luxurious, celebrity-studded lifestyle would end in another hotel room—a thousand miles away from the one where he grew up—when police found him bound up in duct tape, beaten to death. Seven years earlier, police found Novack in an eerily similar situation—when his wife Narcy duct-taped him to a chair for twenty-four hours and robbed him. Claiming it was a sex game, he never pressed charges and never followed through with a divorce. Now prosecutors claimed Narcy let the vicious killers into the room and watched as they beat her husband with dumbbells. They also suspected she was involved in the horrendous death of Novack's mother, just three months before. But it would be Narcy's own daughter who implicated her to the police. John Glatt tells the whole story of this twisted case of passion, perversion, and paradise lost, in Prince of Paradise.

ジョン・グラットは、マイアミの象徴フォンテンブローという煌びやかな「楽園」を舞台に、欲望と凄惨な死を鮮烈に描き出しました。本作の魅力は、華やかなセレブリティ文化の裏側に潜む、一族の精神的崩壊を鋭く抉り出した点にあります。 倒錯した愛と執着、そして身内による非情な裏切り。ベン・ノヴァク・ジュニアという「王子の没落」を通じ、読者は富がもたらす虚無と人間関係の極限的な歪みを目の当たりにします。事実は小説よりも奇なりを体現する重厚な筆致は、私たちの倫理観を揺さぶり、失われた楽園の残骸へと深く引きずり込むことでしょう。