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In his latest triumphant novel, Aaron Latham pits Texas guts against Hollywood glitz when a modern-day cowboy turned screenwriter dusts off his Stetson in order to solve a murder.
Simon and Schuster
May 2006
Featuring: Chick Goodnight; Jamie Stone
384 pages
ISBN: 0743269799
Hardcover
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Fiction | Mystery
Chick Goodnight has arrived in Hollywood to write a
screenplay about his great-great-great-ever-so-great
grandfather Jimmy Goodnight -- the legend who more or less
invented the Texas cowboy during the 1870s (and who was
featured in Latham's Code of the West and The Cowboy with
the Tiffany Gun). As the film's director -- smart and beautiful Hollywood
veteran Jamie Stone -- shows Chick how to write for the
screen, he finds his quaint Western-inspired code of ethics
challenged by an industry in which casting departments pimp
for their producers and overzealous method actors feel
obliged to seduce their costars. But culture shock becomes
the least of Chick's worries when his cousin, a young
aspiring actress, dies under suspicious circumstances.
Shortly, Chick -- taking a few heroic pages from his own
script -- is forced to investigate before someone else meets
his maker. As Chick's misadventures take him from Hollywood to Texas
and back again, Aaron Latham treats us to a bravura piece in
which art imitates life imitating art.
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