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Viking
August 2010
On Sale: August 9, 2010
Featuring: Danny; Hugh Waters; Hedda Chase
ISBN: 0670022004
EAN: 9780670022007
Hardcover
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Suspense Psychological
A taut and terrifying thriller about the lengths to which
we'll go to make our dreams come true Hedda Chase is a top-flight executive producer at Gladiator
Films, fast-tracked in the business since she graduated
from Yale. An aggressive businesswoman, she recently pulled
the plug on a film project initiated by one of her
predecessors. The screenwriter on the project was Hugh
Waters, a wannabe with a dead-end marriage and a day job at
an insurance company. This script was his ticket out-until
Hedda tampered with his plans, claiming his violence was
over the top, his premise not credible, and his ending
implausible. Hugh decides to prove otherwise by staging his
script's ending and casting Hedda Chase as the victim. He
flies to Los Angeles and finds Hedda, kidnaps her, and
locks her in the trunk of her vintage BMW in the parking
lot at LAX. He leaves the keys in the ignition, the parking
ticket on the dash, and lets "destiny" take its course. This is the set-up for a troubling, smart, deadly look at
women and images of women, at media as a high-stakes game
and the selling of a war as theatre. (One key character is
an Iraq veteran, and one of Hedda's projects is a film
about women in Iraq). Brundage's Los Angeles is a casual
battleground that trades carelessly in lives and dreams. As
always, her characters are complicated, surprising, and
intense in this high velocity, provocative novel.
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