The North Fork Arts Center & Burton's Books welcome Kevin Wade for an exclusive presentation of his first novel, Johnny Careless.

Kevin Wade is a playwright, screenwriter, and television writer and producer whose credits include the stage plays Key Exchange, Mr. & Mrs, and Cruise Control, and the screenplays for Working Girl (seven Academy Award nominations), True Colors, Mr. Baseball, Junior, Meet Joe Black, and Maid in Manhattan. For television, he created the ABC television drama Cashmere Mafia. In 2010 he joined the rookie CBS drama Blue Bloods as a writer, and since 2011 he has served as its showrunner, executive producer, and backseat driver.

Johnny Careless introduces a gritty, captivating protagonist in Police Chief Jeep Mullane, a man whose troubled past and complicated present collide when the body of his childhood friend, Johnny Chambliss, surfaces in Long Island's wealthy North Shore.

Following the lecture there will be a Q&A session where attendees can engage directly with Kevin Wade. A signing will follow, and books will be available for purchase through Burton's Books on site.