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CUTTING ROOM, THE by Laurence Klavan - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKLike the hero in a classic Hitchcock thriller, the innocent movie buff
at the center of this witty and suspenseful novel finds his ordinary
life suddenly transformed when he's plunged into a harrowing game of
intrigue, duplicity, and danger. Spurred into a frantic race from New
York to Hollywood to Barcelona and back, he'll encounter enough hairpin
twists, shocking surprises, white-knuckle tension, and sinister
characters to give even the master of suspense himself a serious case
of vertigo. But in this scenario, the mayhem and murder are all too real.
Self-proclaimed
movie geek and divorced thirty-something Roy Milano lives alone in a
cramped Manhattan apartment, toiling as a freelancer to make ends meet.
It's a life perfectly suited to the creator of Trivial Man,
Roy's self-published newsletter--filled with tidbits of little-known
Tinseltown lore for the delight of other fringe-dwelling cinemaphiles.
And it's a tantalizing phone call from one such kindred spirit that
thrusts Roy headlong into his waking noir nightmare.
"I've got The Magnificent Ambersons,"
declares Alan Gilbert, host of a homemade cable-TV show about the
silver screen, who now claims to possess the rarest of the rare: the
long-lost and never-released complete print of Orson Welles's classic
follow-up to Citizen Kane. But when Roy arrives at his fellow
movie maven's abode to sneak a peek at celluloid history, the front
door is ominously open, Alan Gilbert is dead, and The Magnificent Ambersons
is nowhere in sight. Even though the cops arrest a local drug addict
for the murder, Roy knows they're wrong--because the theft of the movie
masterpiece points to a different kind of junkie. The kind Roy knows
only too well ... and the kind he's certain only he can catch.
But
Roy Milano is no Sam Spade, even if he does run into more gun-toting
goons, sucker punches, and double-crosses than Bogey on a busy day. And
the suspects prove to be anything but usual--including a bodybuilding
film fanatic obsessed with bizarre rumors about an A-list actress, a
rotund reporter who holds Hollywood in thrall via red-hot Internet
dispatches from his parents' basement, and a starstruck street punk
with a thousand voices. And then there's the transatlantic love
triangle that finds Roy caught between his very own eager Gal Friday
and a sultry Spanish siren with a stunning secret. But when the bodies
start to fall faster than a box-office bomb, Roy must cut to the chase
in his perilous quest to save the Holy Grail of cinema--and unmask a
killer--before everything fades to black.
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