Beck's Thriller a Ripoff of His Ghostwriter's Last Book?

By don beaty,  Newser User
Posted Jun 16, 2010 10:38 PM CDT Posted Jun 16, 2010 10:38 PM CDT
Promoted on Newser Jun 17, 2010 10:16 AM CDT
Who authored Glenn Becks new novel?
Radio and television personality Glenn Beck appears on the "FOX & friends" cable television program in New York, Tuesday, April 20, 2010.   (AP)

The plot of Glenn Beck's new political thriller, The Overton Window, reads a whole heck of a lot like that of Circumference of Darkness, notes the Huffington Post. That just so happens to have been written in 2005 by Jack Henderson. Who just so happened to have ghostwritten Overton Window. Only in Beck's novel, the bad guy is no longer the right wing. Can you guess who is? Correct. The left. Click here to read about the plot similarities. (More Glenn Beck stories.)

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