a playboy journalist with a knee-weakening smile. Catcher can count the number of women he’s dated on two hands – on any given day. He has little respect for any of these women. He’s charming, clever, and audacious. Known as “a ladies’ man, man’s man, and man about town” all at once, Catcher is beloved by most everyone who knows him – at least until Barbara Novak enters his life. To bring her down, Catcher must pretend to be naïve, humble, and polite. In other words, everything he isn’t. 