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Ray Corson came to Hollywood to be a screenwriter, not hired muscle. But when a beautiful girl with a purse full of cash asks for your help, how can you say no? So Corson agrees to protect starlet Rebecca LaFontaine from a vengeful mobster but what he doesnt realize is that hell have to join the Mob to do it.
Rave Reviews for MAX PHILLIPS!
A rip-roaring page-turner.
New York Newsday
Snappy dialogue, caustic characterizations, hot descriptive passages.
Esquire
A graphic satire of bedroom mores.
The New Yorker
Deft satiric wit.
The New York Times Book Review
Masterfully told... Phillips keeps it compelling to the end.
The Seattle Times
Irresistible.
J.D. Landis, author of Longing
Inventive, vividly written... highly entertaining.
Kirkus Reviews
High Praise forFADE to BLONDE!
Sharp, savvy, and unapologetically raunchy... this taut, hard novel is a winner.
January Magazine
A dark, dangerous style.
The New York Times Sunday Magazine
A sleek ride... note-perfect noir.
The Haddon Herald
Its been said that Fade to Blonde could have been a Gold Medal novel. It certainly could have. Its easily one of the best books Ive read this year.
James Reasoner
A smash from beginning to end.
Pop Thought
Sure to thrill... They do write em like they used to.
Publishers Weekly
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HE AGREED TO PROTECT HER FROM A VENGEFUL MOBSTER. HE JUST DIDNT REALIZE HED HAVE TO JOIN THE MOB TO DO IT. Ray Corson came to Hollywood to be a screenwriter, not hired muscle. But when moneys tight and a beautiful woman asks for your help, how can you say no? But going up against a man like Lan
### From Publishers Weekly Best known for his poetry and literary fiction (_The Artist's Wife_ , etc.), Phillips contributes to a new crime imprint a hard-boiled whodunit sure to thrill fans of such Golden Age masters as James M. Cain. Ex-boxer/failed screenwriter Ray Corson is as tough talkingβand
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Eighteen-year-old Goth Sophie Blue, sensing that something is awry in her small town, begins to piece together the connections between her missing father, a scientific researcher at a local laboratory, and her high school's football star, Kenny.;Intro; WELCOME; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; A PREVIEW OF "YOU KI
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