Dangerous Kiss (A Lucky Santangelo Novel) - Hardcover

Collins, Jackie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684850303 ISBN 13: 9780684850306

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1999

Synopsis

The brassy, beautiful heroine of Lucky and Chances, Lucky Santangelo, returns to avenge the death of two close friends in a carjacking, a mission that entangles her with the U.S. president and leads to scandal. 300,000 first printing.

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About the Author

There have been many imitators, but only Jackie Collins can tell you what really goes on in the fastest lane of all. From Beverly Hills bedrooms to a raunchy prowl along the streets of Hollywood; from glittering rock parties and concerts to stretch limos and the mansions of power brokers--Jackie Collins chronicles the real truth from the inside looking out.Jackie Collins has been called a "raunchy moralist" by the late director Louis Malle and "Hollywood's own Marcel Proust" by Vanity Fair magazine. With more than 500 million copies of her books sold in more than forty countries, and with some twenty-seven New York Times bestsellers to her credit, Jackie Collins is one of the world's top-selling novelists. She is known for giving her readers an unrivalled insider's knowledge of Hollywood and the glamorous lives and loves of the rich, famous, and infamous. "I write about real people in disguise," she says. "If anything, my characters are toned down--the truth is much more bizarre."

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Reviews

Lucky's backAand the myriad fans of the Santangelo novels (most recently, Vendetta) will be glued to the page. Once again, Lucky has the weight of the world on her gorgeous shoulders. Again, she triumphs in love and business, with enough violence in her wake to make Mickey Spillane shudder. Daughter of mobster Gino, whose Las Vegas empire was her proving ground in previous novels, Lucky's a chip off the headstrong block. She's Lennie Golden's hot, adoring wife (as long as she doesn't have to make lunch), a doting mom (who frequently packs the kids off for the weekend) and a major Hollywood player as the head of Panther StudiosAuntil she abruptly decides to sell. Most of her ardor and energy, though, go into troubleshooting for her large, biracial, multinational clan, including her black half-brother, Steven, a handsome lawyer whose actress wife, Mary Lou, is killed during a carjacking (Lennie's at the wheel), and her goddaughter, Brigette, supermodel and ultra-rich Greek shipping heiress who falls prey to a no-account count and is forcibly addicted to heroin while pregnant. As Lennie battles depression, Lucky struggles with the attentions of director Alex Woods, who never lets her forget the night they shared while Lennie was sweating a prequel kidnapping ordeal in an Italian cave. (Collins doesn't shortchange the new reader on back story.) Fierce monogamist Lucky excuses her own slip (she'd thought Lennie was dead) but has a hard time forgiving Lennie when his Sicilian rescuer, bosomy Claudia, appears with a hearing-impaired five-year-old son who's a Lennie look-alike. Claudia conveniently dies saving Lennie's life once more, for Collins shares Lucky's ruthlessness with people in her way. Believable? Not for a minute. Entertaining? Of course. Agent, Morton Janklow. Literary Guild and Doubleday main selections; author tour. (June)
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The fifth in a series featuring sexy Lucky Santangelo (Vendetta, 1997, etc.), the feminist, gun-toting head of Panther Studios. Lucky is a survivor, and shes had a lot to survive. She was only five when she discovered her mother dead in a swimming pool, murdered by her nemesis, the Bonnatti family. And then Luckys third husband and soulmate, the handsome Hollywood director Lennie Golden, was kidnaped and manacled for six months in a cave in Sicily, rescued from same by the young and lovely Claudia, with whom he had a one-day stand. Lennie had been married previously to the daughter of Lucky's second husband, the Greek shipping magnate Dmitri Stanislopoulos, and Lucky's former step-granddaughter Brigette Stanislopoulos, a ``top supermodel,'' has also had plenty of death and sexual perversion to survive, though she hasn't done it as well as Lucky. When we join up with everyone now, Lucky is 40 but still the smartest, most beautiful woman in Hollywood, and Lennie is directing a film starring Mary Lou, the wife of Lucky's black half-brother Stevenuntil, on the way from the studio, Mary Lou is murdered in a carjacking. Brigette, meanwhile, is raped and turned into a heroin addict by her vicious Italian husband Carlo, who hopes to steal her inheritance (from her grandfather, the shipping magnate). And Claudia shows up from Sicily with Lennie's illegitimate son, the product of that one-day stand. In the end, Lucky threatens Carlo with castration, shoots a psychopath threatening Lennie, and agrees to raise Lennie's Sicilian son. If you like Collins, this one's a hoot. Well, even if you dont. (Literary Guild Main selection; Doubleday Book Club Main selection; TV and radio satellite tour; author tour) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Collins returns with another high-glitz, high-drama Hollywood tale. Her unstoppably glamorous yet mercilessly tough heroine, Lucky Santangelo, takes center stage--providing a calm, cool center for the whirlwind of recklessness, murder, and deceit that surrounds her. Her sangfroid, though, may be the product of her Mob ties, of which readers are subtly reminded in regular references to "Santangelo justice," suggesting that Lucky is not only intractable but also dangerous. The action moves along two plotlines. In one, Lucky's supermodel niece is kidnapped and force-fed heroin by a handsome yet treacherous Italian duke. The other involves the car-jacking of Lucky's husband, Lenny Golden, and the subsequent murder of his passenger and sister-in-law, the beloved actress Mary Lou Berkeley. As always with Collins, the writing is a bit banal--but who cares really, with all the fabulous parties, ostentatious wealth, and obnoxious egos on parade? This is a fast-paced story full of suspense and intrigue, as well as the requisite assortment of models, Hollywood celebrities, and European royalty, and it should certainly please Collins' fans, tabloid readers, or those just looking for a bit of escapism on their train ride home. Catherine Sias

Collins superheroine Lucky Santangelo gets her revenge when two people she cares for are killed in a car-jacking.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684850303
• ISBN 13: 9780684850306
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 560