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Description:WARNING! Adult situations and harsh language. Blonde Lightning From the Ballantine Books edition: In Earthquake Weather, Terrill Lee Lankford mined his own experiences as a player in the glamorous, ruthless movie business to create a West Coast noir hailed by T. Jefferson Parker as “part Raymond Chandler and part Nathanael West.” Now get ready for another thrill ride down the Boulevard of Broken Dreams–where a wrong turn can lead to a very dead end. Out of work in The Industry, Mark Hayes decides he’s desperate enough to hitch his wagon to the dubious star of Clyde McCoy, a hard-drinking veteran screenwriter known only too well for being difficult. Clyde has secured the backing to produce his latest script, a noir homage called Blonde Lightning. With a popular action star and a sexy up-and-comer on board in the lead roles, he’s cleaning up his act, dusting off his director’s chair, and is determined to make the picture happen. For investing the last of his savings into the production, Mark gets the title of associate producer. However, his real job is on-set troubleshooter–his duties ranging from keeping a randy old character actor on a short leash to caring for and feeding some very high-maintenance investors. But the real trouble starts when a crewmember is nearly electrocuted. Clyde suspects sabotage, compliments of Mace Thornburg, an industry bottom-feeder with a grudge against nearly everyone in Hollywood, including Clyde’s martial-arts-actress girlfriend. After she’s almost killed in another suspicious accident, Clyde and Mark resort to drastic measures to exact revenge. But when the payback plot takes an unscripted turn, the deadly drama is suddenly no longer in front of the cameras. Now, trapped in a classic double-cross scenario, Mark realizes the only way out is for him and Clyde to wade deeper into a violent nightmare of treachery, lies, and murder as black and inescapable as the La Brea tar pits. It’s a trip Clyde seems more than willing to take . . . and that Mark discovers is part of the high price for finally getting his name on the silver screen. From Booklist: Following his peripheral involvement in the murder of a studio executive (Earthquake Weather, 2004), Hollywood producer wanna-be Mark Hayes is still struggling on the edges of the film world. Things may be looking up, though, if he and his partner, Peckinpah-like writer-director Clyde McCoy, ever get their low-budget indie film into the can. Plenty of roadblocks stand in the way: the likelihood that McCoy will hit the bottle yet again; the escalating, on-set sabotage attempts of a crazed agent; and McCoy's disaster-waiting-to--happen idea of hiring a hit man to deal with the agent. The disaster eventually does happen in a bullet-riddled, over-the-top finale, but along the way, Lankford treats readers to a gritty, detail-rich portrait of how a movie gets made, from development to distribution. That the filmmaking process parallels the playing out of the crime drama in a steadily more ironic way adds an extra level of sly entertainment, much in the manner of Elmore Leonard's Get Shorty and Be Cool (the latter, a bad movie but a good book). Bill Ott Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Blonde Lightning (Hayes/McCoy Book 2). To get started finding Blonde Lightning (Hayes/McCoy Book 2), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: WARNING! Adult situations and harsh language. Blonde Lightning From the Ballantine Books edition: In Earthquake Weather, Terrill Lee Lankford mined his own experiences as a player in the glamorous, ruthless movie business to create a West Coast noir hailed by T. Jefferson Parker as “part Raymond Chandler and part Nathanael West.” Now get ready for another thrill ride down the Boulevard of Broken Dreams–where a wrong turn can lead to a very dead end. Out of work in The Industry, Mark Hayes decides he’s desperate enough to hitch his wagon to the dubious star of Clyde McCoy, a hard-drinking veteran screenwriter known only too well for being difficult. Clyde has secured the backing to produce his latest script, a noir homage called Blonde Lightning. With a popular action star and a sexy up-and-comer on board in the lead roles, he’s cleaning up his act, dusting off his director’s chair, and is determined to make the picture happen. For investing the last of his savings into the production, Mark gets the title of associate producer. However, his real job is on-set troubleshooter–his duties ranging from keeping a randy old character actor on a short leash to caring for and feeding some very high-maintenance investors. But the real trouble starts when a crewmember is nearly electrocuted. Clyde suspects sabotage, compliments of Mace Thornburg, an industry bottom-feeder with a grudge against nearly everyone in Hollywood, including Clyde’s martial-arts-actress girlfriend. After she’s almost killed in another suspicious accident, Clyde and Mark resort to drastic measures to exact revenge. But when the payback plot takes an unscripted turn, the deadly drama is suddenly no longer in front of the cameras. Now, trapped in a classic double-cross scenario, Mark realizes the only way out is for him and Clyde to wade deeper into a violent nightmare of treachery, lies, and murder as black and inescapable as the La Brea tar pits. It’s a trip Clyde seems more than willing to take . . . and that Mark discovers is part of the high price for finally getting his name on the silver screen. From Booklist: Following his peripheral involvement in the murder of a studio executive (Earthquake Weather, 2004), Hollywood producer wanna-be Mark Hayes is still struggling on the edges of the film world. Things may be looking up, though, if he and his partner, Peckinpah-like writer-director Clyde McCoy, ever get their low-budget indie film into the can. Plenty of roadblocks stand in the way: the likelihood that McCoy will hit the bottle yet again; the escalating, on-set sabotage attempts of a crazed agent; and McCoy's disaster-waiting-to--happen idea of hiring a hit man to deal with the agent. The disaster eventually does happen in a bullet-riddled, over-the-top finale, but along the way, Lankford treats readers to a gritty, detail-rich portrait of how a movie gets made, from development to distribution. That the filmmaking process parallels the playing out of the crime drama in a steadily more ironic way adds an extra level of sly entertainment, much in the manner of Elmore Leonard's Get Shorty and Be Cool (the latter, a bad movie but a good book). Bill Ott Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Blonde Lightning (Hayes/McCoy Book 2). To get started finding Blonde Lightning (Hayes/McCoy Book 2), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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