Hollywood, 1962. The sultry screen siren known as Marilyn takes an overdose, but survives to find herself in the middle of a terrifying whirlpool of blackmail, politics, and murder. The author of the critically acclaimed Promises to Keep delivers another sizzling tale--hauntingly familiar--with a striking twist. Radio advertisng. HC: Warner.
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Like an aging boxer, overpadded and a bit slow on its feet, this highly colored thriller delivers the occasional powerhouse punch. Bernau ( Promises to Keep ) launches it at one cultural turning point--"What if Marilyn had lived?"--and wends through two others--the Cuban missile crisis and Chappaquidick--happily rearranging historical facts to form a new, improved story line. It's a shame he wasn't equally inventive with his characters, who--with the exception of some truly stellar cameo roles (a tired blond doppelganger for Marilyn; a cranky ambulance driver)--generally lack dimension. World-weary L.A. private eye Frank Galvan is tempted into action on the the night in 1962 when he finds the drugged, naked--but still breathing--body of Marilyn Lane, America's stratospheric sex symbol, sprawled across her bed. "What a waste," says Galvan succinctly, poleaxed by her beauty. When the vulnerable, manipulative star is snatched from the hospital and flees to Mexico, a small packet of glossy blackmail photos creating havoc in her wake, the smitten Galvan is not far behind. Stirred into the simmering pot are mob ties; hot affairs with charismatic President Jack Kerrigan and his brother Tommy, the U.S. attorney general; CIA plots; and rough sex, plus plenty of true-to-life 1960s sexism. The very recognizable cast should give the novel a good boost up the beach-reading list. 40,000 first printing.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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