What begins as a business meeting between a novelist and her ‘for-hire’ public persona soon curdles into a western face-off. What begins as a business meeting between a novelist and her ‘for-hire’ public persona soon curdles into a western face-off. What begins as a business meeting between a novelist and her ‘for-hire’ public persona soon curdles into a western face-off. What begins as a business meeting between a novelist and her ‘for-hire’ public persona soon curdles into a western face-off.