cover image Exit the Rainmaker

Exit the Rainmaker

Jonathan Coleman. Dell Publishing Company, $5.99 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-440-20752-8

In 1982 Jay Carsey, age 47, president of a community college in Maryland, vanished, walking away not only from his job and 14-year marriage but from a seemingly enviable life. ``In a book as spellbinding as a first-rate whodunit, the author of At Mother's Request seeks reasons for this mystifying behavior,'' said PW. Author tour. (Sept.)