The Shooting Script: A Novel of Suspense

Hardcover. Good. Hardcover Good Ships From Canada Sewn binding Cloth over boards 288 p Audience: General/trade Book Description: Following his critically acclaimed novel The Cutting Room, Laurence Klavan returns with The Shooting Script Establishing shot: New York City, present day Zoom in on a run-down tenement building, somewhere west of Times Square, the home of Roy Milano, a thirtyish, divorced typesetter who lives for the movies In fact, by pursuing the legendary uncut print of Orson Welles s The Magnificent Ambersons, Roy has become something of a minor celebrity among the fellow misfit film fanatics he caters to in his homemade newsletter, Trivial Man But there s nothing trivial when Roy s old rival Abner Cooley shows up with a check in his hand and the words Someone is trying to kill me on his lips With his mother ailing, Roy needs the money as badly as Cooley needs someone to head off a trigger-happy stalker who s determined to put both him and his controversial new screenplay into permanent turna