The book tanked, and is out of print.
According to industry legend, a book tanked when its publisher omitted from its cover the single light that customarily shines from an upper window of a graystone castle.
As Kurt Woolf, Kafka's first publisher in Germany, wrote to him after Kafka's book tanked, "You and we know that it is generally just the best and most valuable things that do not find their echo immediately".
But when this Kennedy-like clan, which is under discreet investigation for child abuse, makes fast friends with Jack (a hotshot reporter, mind you) and his girlfriend (the investigating social worker, no less), the mind reels -- and the book tanks.
Does it really want to explore the life journey of, say, Chantelle Houghton, now 26, a contestant on "Celebrity Big Brother" in 2006 who was reportedly paid £300,000 for a memoir that came out five months later, "Living the Dream?" (Actually, no: that book tanked).
Because we need to keep this guy in business, and help him sell books, because this nation has a shortage of truth tellers, and we can't have him defaulting on his mortgage, because his book tanks, and then see him join the enemy, the Goldman Gang.
Inspired by Neneh Cherry and comic book character Tank Girl, Gard designed Lara Croft to counter stereotypical female characters.
Inspired by pop artist Neneh Cherry and comic book character Tank Girl, Gard experimented with different designs, including a muscular woman and a Nazi-like militant.
Even when she got a gig – in the 1995 big-screen comic-book movie Tank Girl, say – it fell flat, the film flopping notoriously.
And sloppy underwriting at Lloyd's put bad risks on the books that tanked several syndicates.
