Shafted - Softcover
Larry Logan is a small-time TV star with a mile-wide ego. When his latest show is axed, he is dismayed to find that the only work he can get is fronting a fake game show that is actually an undercover police sting designed to trap criminals. His reluctance evaporates, however, as the show rockets his career back to prime-time stardom, and when the lovely, shy Stephanie enters his life he thinks he finally has it made. But Larry doesn't know how dangerous those criminals are. He helped imprison some dangerous menand they want revenge.
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About the Author:
Mandasue Heller was born in Cheshire and moved to Manchester in 1982. She spent ten years living in the notorious Hulme Cresecents. Not only is she a talented writer, but she has also sung in cabaret and rock groups, seventies soul cover bands and blues jam bands.
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In Heller's wonderfully wicked revenge thriller, British TV host Larry Logan loses his job after he performs drunk on a children's charity telethon and, in an even dumber move, has a boozy fling with a 16-year-old female fan . Two years later, a desperate Larry agrees to host fake game show Gotcha! for American TV that's actually a police sting operation to catch real British felons, including notorious bail jumper Derek "Dex" Lewis. Manchester Insp. Bill Keeton persuades Larry to schmooze the slippery crook to lure him to the fake set. After the cops bust him, Dex vows vengeance, as does his teen daughter Molly, mom Nora, brother Patrick and ex-wife, Jane. Meanwhile, Dex's disgruntled girlfriend concocts a scheme to score secret payback. Suspense intersects brilliantly with savage pop culture satire as Heller (The Club) reveals just how twisted life can be when it connects with crimes of the head and heart. (Nov.)
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- PublisherHodder & Stoughton
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0340899514
- ISBN 13 9780340899519
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages400
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