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Synopsis
Mystery Large Print EditionThe fiery finish and final revelations put Martinis new novel squarely in the commercial territory tracked by the list . . . a likely blockbuster in its own right. Publishers Weekly* A New York Times Bestseller* A Literary Guild Main Selection* A Doubleday Book Club Main Selection* A Mystery Guild Main SelectionA bold and successful scheme to outwit the most powerful players in the publishing and film industries animates this novel a suspenseful thriller in which the price of fame becomes terror. Gable Cooper has $6 million in rights offers for his novel and he doesnt even exist. The real writer, attorney Abby Chandlis, wants a stand-in for herself, thinking that a charismatic male face posing as the phantom author will clinch success for her novel. Abby makes a deal with the devil, and all the legal contortions in the world wont stop her from being trapped by her own creation . . .
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About the Author
Steve Martini, a former trial attorney, has worked as a journalist and capital correspondent in the California State House in Sacramento. He has been engaged in both public and private practice of law. He lives on the US West Coast.
From Kirkus Reviews
So you thought it was all fun and games having a breakout novel? Come listen to Martini, on leave from his series about defense attorney Paul Madriani (The Judge, 1996, etc.), spin this wild and wooly tale of a pseudonym caper from hell. Life hasn't been kind to Abby Chandlis. She's going nowhere in her Seattle law firm; her second career as a novelist is stalled; her shiftless ex is behind in his payments, leaving her dining on cat food. But Abby has an ace in the hole: a new novel that could hit the bestseller list with the force of a pile- driver. Could hit, if only Abby weren't so unglamorous (she's pushing 40), so shopworn (those old novels turn out to be worse than no help), so unpromotable. So Abby and her roommate Theresa decide to find a front, some male model who'll masquerade as ``Gable Cooper'' for a percentage of a take that stretches higher than Jack's beanstalk. And even though the front that Abby ends up with, soldier-of-fortune/failed novelist Jack Jermaine, isn't exactly what she was looking for, the two storm through a brightly malicious pipe dream of literary celebrity, as Abby sticks like glue to her supposed client's side while big-ticket agents, publishers, and producers fight over them like so many jackals. But even before take-charge Jermaine spirits his dazzled ghostwriter off to the Caribbean for some sun and sex, clouds have gathered on the horizon. Theresa has died in a suspicious accident that seems meant for Abby; Theresa's low-life husband Joey follows apace; the Seattle police are looking for Abby; so is a scandal-sheet reporter; and finally Abby wonders whether her own legal claim to her chart-busting novel might be a lot more slender than she thought--and might be based a little too exclusively on the testimony of her late friend. Absolutely irresistible balderdash--The Pelican Brief for everybody who isn't John Grisham. (First printing of 400,000; $350,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild/Mystery Guild main selection) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherG K Hall & Co
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0783880898
- ISBN 13 9780783880891
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages586
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G K Hall & Co January 1997, 1997
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