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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication date September 1, 1999
Pages 235
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780375401435
ISBN-10 0375401431
Dimensions 1 by 6.75 by 9.75 in.
Weight 1.25 lbs.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price $23.00
§As reported by publisher
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
The Drift | Stray Dogs | Love Is a Racket
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Summary
Paris Scott, a hapless young loser trying unsuccessfully to make it in Hollywood, finds his life descending into complete mayhem when the last master tape of a rock star who recently committed suicide and a fortune in stolen drugs fall into his hands. 75,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: John Ridley -- author of Stray Dogs and Love Is a Racket -- is back with a scathingly funny, outrageous new novel that chronicles the mayhem unleashed by the misadventures of one hapless young man trying to make it in Hollywood.

Paris Scott can't make anything work out. A failed Hollywood screenwriter, he works nights at a convenience store, and drives a '74 Gremlin. And he was just dumped by his best girl. But when the last master tape of a freshly-suicided rock star and a small fortune's worth of stolen drugs fall into his lap, he seems to have stumbled on the key to his dreams.

It might as well be a neutron bomb.

Although the people who want the dope get themselves dangerously confused with the people who want the tape, it's clear to everyone that Paris is the target. And how does a guy who's wanted dead stay alive? "Get out of town, get some money, then get more out of town." Paris puts his Gremlin in gear and the resulting chase and chain- reaction madness stretches from Los Angeles to Las Vegas leaving a trail of blood, bodies, and broken hearts in its wake.

Dope dealers, Hollywood agents, two-bit criminals, three-bit criminals, waitresses, rock stars, strippers, beautiful women, not-so-beautiful women, honest working Joes and psychopaths -- no one comes out clean in this raucous romp-and-stomp. It's John Ridley at his most devilishly sly, laying out proof that, without a doubt, everybody smokes in hell.

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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780375401435 Book cover for 9780676790207
 
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from Alfred a Knopf Inc (September 1, 1999)
9780375401435 | details & prices | 235 pages | 6.75 × 9.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $23.00
About: Paris Scott, a hapless young loser trying unsuccessfully to make it in Hollywood, finds his life descending into complete mayhem when the last master tape of a rock star who recently committed suicide and a fortune in stolen drugs fall into his hands
from Random House Inc (June 1, 1999)
9780676790207 | details & prices | List price $24.00
Paperback
Book cover for 9780345421470
 
from Ballantine Books (August 1, 2000)
9780345421470 | details & prices | 235 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $13.95
About: Paris Scott, a hapless young loser trying unsuccessfully to make it in Hollywood, finds his life descending into complete mayhem when the last master tape of a rock star who recently committed suicide and a fortune in stolen drugs fall into his hands.

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