http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BOOKS_LOST_AUTHOR?SITE=DEWIL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULTBook by phantom 'Lost' author
By HILLEL ITALIE
AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --
Gary Troup, a name known to fans of the hit TV drama "Lost," has joined a special club that includes the likes of Ellen Rimbauer and Marcie Walsh: "authors" of books by television characters.
In Wednesday night's episode of the ABC hit show about plane crash survivors on a remote island, the con man Sawyer, played by Josh Holloway, is seen reading an advance copy of fellow passenger Gary Troup's "Bad Twin." Sawyer, an odd bookworm, describes it as a whodunit he's anxious to finish.
Troup has been missing since the plane went down, but a copy of his book just happened to land a while back in the offices of Hyperion Books, which, like ABC, is owned by the Walt Disney Company. "Bad Twin," billed as Troup's "final novel before disappearing Oceanic Flight 815," was published this week.<<<<snip>>>>>
"Gary Troup" is a true mystery man, his name an anagram for "Purgatory." But someone claiming to be the author shows up in a promotional video linked to the "Bad Twin" page on Amazon.com, and Miller himself provides a blurb: "Sure to be a classic of the genre.