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When The Actor Inspired Chaos and Bloodshed
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Description de l'ouvrage:
Up-and-coming LA actor Dominic Graves has a disappointing portfolio of forgettable television work and low-budget exploitation films. So, when his insulting, crummy agent tells him that Ignacio Martinez, an influential South American filmmaker, wants him to play the lead in his action movie, it comes as a welcome shock. Sadly, accidents and quarrels besiege the production, and the director's reckless fixation with realism and relentless quest for perfectionism impede filming and puts everyone's safety at stake.
When Dominic's striking, svelte young co-star, Sofia Prodva, becomes enamored with the American actor, the palpable sexual chemistry between the two stars creates a toxic environment. It turns out that Sofia is the director's mistress, and the moment Ignacio senses the betrayal, relations between the director and his principal actor take a turn for the worse.
The nightmarish movie-making experience is nothing compared to the actor's exploits away from the film set, where jealousy, rivalry, and revenge stalk him to the final shoot, leading to chaos and bloodshed.
À propos de l'auteur :
Nicholas Litchfield is the author of the novels Hessman's Necklace, When The Actor Inspired Chaos and Bloodshed, and Swampjack Virus, and editor of twelve literary anthologies. His stories, essays, and book reviews appear in BULL, Colorado Review, Daily Press, The MacGuffin, The Virginian-Pilot, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. He has contributed introductions to numerous books, including twenty-three Stark House Press reprints of long-forgotten mystery novels. Formerly a book critic for the Lancashire Post, syndicated to twenty-five newspapers across the U.K., he now writes for Publishers Weekly. Reach him at nicholaslitchfield.com.
Revue de Presse:
"Pulsating with danger and menace, and infused with sharp-edged English humour, this excellently exotic adventure is the literary equivalent of a made-for-Hollywood big screen delight!"
-- Pam Norfolk, YORKSHIRE EVENING POST
"Nicholas Litchfield's novel pans across the seedy side of movie-making. As Dominic Graves, a struggling actor with a killer smile, gets pushed and pulled through scenes shot in the heart of Montevideo, he quickly learns his big break will leave marks that aren't part of the script. Litchfield's entertaining and gritty novel reads like a 1970s car-chase shot with a handheld camera, full of jolts and scrapes and Technicolor chaos."
-- ADAM BERLIN, author of Belmondo Style and All Around They're Taking Down the Lights
"A cinematic page-turner about Hollywood gone by, movie-making, and a throwback to a golden era of hard-boiled stories of noir and shadows, questionable morals, devious sins, and the unforgettable characters that made that world their own."
-- CHRISTOPHER COSMOS, bestselling author of Once We Were Here and Young Conquerors
"Fans of edge-of-the-seat thrillers filled with exotic settings, non-stop action, and a cast of ambitious artistes battling fears, egos, insecurities, and daily disasters, will relish Nicholas Litchfield's pulse-pounding novel, When The Actor Inspired Chaos and Bloodshed."
-- THE STAR
"Author Nicholas Litchfield holds nothing back in this edgy romp through actor Dominic Graves' efforts to stay sane and alive while reaching for fame. Ceaseless action and witty dialogue whip the reader through Dominic's crazy life at a cyclone pace as the weeks of shooting unreel and the director assures Dominic that he has that ineffable "star quality" (if he only survives). Wounds, copious blood loss, and bruises both real and faked by the makeup artist blur together in this unrelenting peek into filmmaking hell."
-- LINDA BOROFF, screenwriter of Murder in Fashion
"This tale of a down-on-his luck actor, so desperate for work that he accepts to play the male lead in a film directed by a well-known sadist, is fast-paced, violent and horrifying. It's a made-for-Hollywood novel that testifies to the author's familiarity with the conventions of movie-making and his ability to keep readers on the edge of their seats. I couldn't put it down."
-- MARY DONALDSON-EVANS, author of Madame Bovary at the Movies
"Litchfield's intense and topical drama sizzles like charred meat over hot coals, eventually erupting into a massive blaze of mesmerising chaos. Amidst the thrills and spills, readers encounter a cast of well-defined characters whose actions and voices manage to rise above the risible film script."
-- LANCASHIRE POST
"A refreshingly different take on international thrillers. Litchfield makes the most of his South American setting in this cinematic page-turner that will keep you engrossed to the very end."
-- TIMOTHY J. LOCKHART, author of Smith and Pirates
"Take ambition, greed, and a dash of corruption and mix them thoroughly on a movie set. Place it in a hot climate until boiling, and you will have the recipe for Nicholas Litchfield's entertaining novel."
-- SHELDON RUSSELL, author of the Hook Runyan Mystery Series
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