He lands in a situation where he has to write about two aspects of a story. And while doing this he gets entangled with a character in his story. There are no twists and turns in the story. Written in first-person it only talks about the protagonist. His life as a journalist in a big city and his dealing with this one particular story. What makes the book worth reading is the tongue and cheek language, the monologues that the protagonist has with himself. His funny description of unexpressed thoughts and wishful thinking and his inventive talks with the lizard in his house.