[
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "looking%20for%20a%20book%20called%20The%20Nothing%20Man%20who%20wrote%20it"
    },
    {
        "role": "assistant",
        "content": "There are *two* well-known books titled *The Nothing Man* by **different authors** \u2014 here\u2019s who wrote them and what each is about:\n\n---\n\n## 1. *The Nothing Man* by Catherine Ryan Howard (2020)\n\n- **Author:** Catherine Ryan Howard, an Irish crime writer from Cork. ([goodreads.com](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54018285-the-nothing-man?utm_source=openai))  \n- **Published:** August 4, 2020 ([books.google.com](https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Nothing_Man.html?id=KO3ODwAAQBAJ&utm_source=openai))  \n- **Plot\u6982\u8981:** When she was twelve, Eve Black survived the only attack in which the notorious serial killer known as \u201cThe Nothing Man\u201d murdered her parents and younger sister. Eighteen years later, Eve writes a true-crime memoir about what happened \u2014 something that not only draws renewed attention on the unsolved case, but also startsle Jim Doyle, a supermarket security guard who\u2019s reading her book. And Jim isn\u2019t just interested \u2014 Jim *is* the Nothing Man. ([books.apple.com](https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-nothing-man/id1502322937?utm_source=openai))  \n\n---\n\n## 2. *The Nothing Man* by Jim Thompson (1954)\n\n- **Author:** Jim Thompson, a classic American crime/hardboiled fiction writer. ([goodreads.com](https://goodreads.com/book/show/829157.The_Nothing_Man?utm_source=openai))  \n- **Published:** 1954 ([goodreads.com](https://goodreads.com/book/show/829157.The_Nothing_Man?utm_source=openai))  \n- **Plot\u6982\u8981:** Set in the post-World War II period, it follows **Clinton Brown**, who returns from war physically disfigured and emotionally damaged. He isolates himself and struggles with shame, alcoholism, and guilt. Brown works as a rewrite man for a newspaper in Pacific City, and when his estranged wife Ellen returns, she threatens to expose a deeply buried secret \u2014 a truth he\u2019d kill to keep hidden. ([books.google.com](https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Nothing_Man.html?id=5qAjEQAAQBAJ&utm_source=openai))  \n\n---\n\nIf you had a particular version of *The Nothing Man* in mind (when you read it, setting, characters, etc.), I can help you figure out which one it was. Do you remember a few details about the one you read?"
    },
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "the%20cathrine%20ryan%20howard%20who%20is%20the%20publisher"
    },
    {
        "role": "assistant",
        "content": "The publisher of *The Nothing Man* by Catherine Ryan Howard is **Blackstone Publishing** in the United States. ([blackstonepublishing.com](https://www.blackstonepublishing.com/products/book-cepn?utm_source=openai))\n\nIn the UK, the book is published by **Corvus**, which is an imprint of **Atlantic Books**. ([openlibrary.org](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL32198958M/The_Nothing_Man?utm_source=openai))"
    }
]