EVERYBODY SMOKES IN HELL

Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. Paris Scott can't make anything work out. A failed Hollywood screenwriter, he works nights at a convenience store, and drives a '74 Gremlin. And he was just dumped by his best girl. But when the last master tape of a freshly-suicided rock star and a small fortune's worth of stolen drugs fall into his lap, he seems to have stumbled on the key to his dreams. It might as well be a neutron bomb. Although the people who want the dope get themselves dangerously confused with the people who want the tape, it's clear to everyone that Paris is the target. And how does a guy who's wanted dead stay alive? "Get out of town, get some money, then get more out of town." Paris puts his Gremlin in gear and the resulting chase and chain- reaction madness stretches from Los Angeles to Las Vegas leaving a trail of blood, bodies, and broken hearts in its wake. Dope dealers, Hollywood agents, two-bit criminals, three-bit criminals, waitresses, rock stars, strippers, beautiful women, not-so-beautiful women, honest working Joes and psychopaths -- no one comes out clean in this raucous romp-and-stomp. It's John Ridley at his most devilishly sly, laying out proof that, without a doubt, everybody smokes in hell. Third comic crime thriller by the author of STRAY DOGS, LOVE IS A RACKET, THE DRIFT, and THOSE WHO WALK IN DARKNESS. Ridley also wrote the original story for David O. Russell's move, 'Three Kings,' and is the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of 2013 Best Picture winner, '12 Years A Slave." He is the creator/writer/director of the terrific new ABC drama, "American Crime." Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M64.…