Blood Will Out, Walter Kirn

Part 48 hours part memoir, Kirn details his fifteen year friendship with Clark Rockefeller. They first met when Kirn transported a hunting dog for Rockefeller and Kirn makes no bones that he wanted to cultivate the young and rather secretive banker from that famous family. He’d be great material but he had no idea how great.

At the time Kirn was an aspiring author ‘Up In the Air’ hadn’t happened yet and he helped out with the dog thing as a favour for some friends in his new home of Montana. When Clark asks if he can come to stay for a couple of weeks Kirn, now a new father with writing deadlines to meet turns him down and as we’ll see it’s a good job he did.