<P>John Cotton was a simple man with one desire: to write the greatest story of his life and have enough life left to read all about it.</P><P>Reporter John Cotton knows what to do when he finds a great story, but he is a little afraid when a big story begins to find him.&nbsp; It starts when a fellow reporter is murdered and his notebook, filled with information about a tax scam, ends up in John's hands.&nbsp; Not long afterwards, a body is discovered in John's car.&nbsp; Then John's car ends up in the river, a bomb is found in his apartment, and his girlfriend drops out of sight.&nbsp; It's up to John to unravel the mystery of the notebook and why anyone would kill for the information it contains.</P>