From the CNN article:
"Gary Troup" is a true mystery man, his name an anagram for "Purgatory."From the Amazon link:
Author Gary Troup delivered the manuscript for his hotly anticipated thriller, Bad Twin, just days before he boarded doomed Oceanic Flight 815. Watch the recently uncovered video clip of Gary Troup on Book Talk interviewed by Laird Granger talking about the controversy surrounding his mysteriously out-of-print first book, The Valenzetti Equation, and his new novel, Bad Twin.
Wasn't there a link to Valenzetti on this board somewhere?