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High life

High life

by Matthew Stokoe

Crimes againstFictionMotion picture actors and actressesProstitutesFiction, suspense
4.0
Open Library
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"Hollywood, the City of Dreams. Jack had gone there with one ambition: to become famous, a star, exactly how he didn't care. He just wanted to be like the people whose lives he followed in gossip magazines: Tom and Nicole, Brad and Gwyneth, Johnny Depp, Bruce Willis... Instead he found a world more seedy than anything he could have imagined, a world of whores and deceit, snuff shows, incest, drugs - and despair. After his wife, Karen, a hooker, is murdered and disemboweled, he meets Bella, a beautiful woman of immense wealth. In her he sees a chance to make his dreams come true. As it turns out, though, his nightmare is only beginning."--BOOK JACKET.

Themes & subjects

Crimes againstFictionMotion picture actors and actressesProstitutesFiction, suspenseHollywood (los angeles, calif.), fiction

Setting

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Author

Matthew Stokoe

Pages

333

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

5

Language

English

Publisher

Akashic Books

ISBN

9781617750090

Where to buy

TR
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