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A darkly funny tale of fashion, fraud and free lunches
Downstream Publishing
December 2005
Featuring: Charlie Barrett
320 pages
ISBN: 0743477634
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Contemporary
Charlie Barrett, male model extraordinaire, is ready for a career change. It's not that ten years of modeling haven't been fun: the Paris shows, the nightclub guest lists, the fabulous apartment and even more fabulous model girlfriend. But, at 33, advertisements for comfy cardigans and the La-Z-Boys loom large in Charlie's future. It's time for him to find a job that offers more challenge than tilting your head left or right on command. So when a chance meeting results in Charlie being offered the job as the face of 2cool2btrue, he readily accepts. 2cool is the web equivalent of Armani, Prada and Gucci; the sexiest thing in cyberspace and everyone wants a piece of it. As their marketing guru, Charlie's days are spent flicking through magazines looking for luxury products for the website to endorse, his nights a whirl of launch parties and champagne. But then things start to go wrong. 2cool's owners disappear... and so does a large amount of money. With his relationship on the rocks, Charlie turns to his old modeling pals for support and finds none of them wants to help a man under investigation for fraud, particularly one labeled "Pretty Boy" by the Police... What is a boy to do?
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