About Author Mark Barry:
Mark Barry is the author of six books of different genres. He has written extensively on a variety of topics including, horse racing, football, personality disorders and human relationships.
Click here to go to Amazon Central Author Page to see all of his books
Currently, Mark is a full time fiction writer and freelance blogger. He has been interviewed on several Radio talk shows where he has given readings of his work. His work has been featured in The Sun, Daily Mail and he has also been interviewed on television.
You can find his intensive independent author interviews at: http://greenwizard62.blogspot.co.uk/ .
Hollywood Shakedown:
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About Hollywood Shakedown:
Buddy Chinn, the son of a lauded beat poet from the seventies, is happy to follow the dishonorable family tradition of booze, bets, books and broads.
Then, at Hollywood Park one winter Saturday afternoon, two tough guys persuade him to join them on a trip to Damascus, a sprawling mansion off Mulholland Drive, a palace surrounded by a forest of imported trees and lush vegetation.
There, he meets Mortimer Saxon, a, reclusive obsessive manuscript collector with an edge.
A sharp suited zealot searching for Buddy's dad's fabled Lost Manuscript; a one off, a unique piece worth thousands and thousands of dollars, an American literary icon similar in cult magnitude to Hunter S Thompson's "Call to the Post."
He asks Buddy whether he can help. Buddy hasn't a clue. Not a scooby.
Trouble is, Mortimer doesn't believe him.
Over the finest steak dinner Buddy has ever eaten, the collector makes him a proposition.
Find the manuscript and make one hundred thousand dollars.
Fail to find the manuscript and lose body parts on instruments restored from Inquisition times.
Worse, he's given two weeks and no choice.
Along with a British comic dealer friend, the two men go on a quest for the manuscript which takes them to the biggest library in the world in Venice Beach, a riotous chess tournament in Chicago, a pulsating FA Cup match in London and back again to the City of Angels.
All the time he's worried about his independent minded squeeze Monique, who, like a very independent minded cat, only ever comes home when she wants feeding.
Hoping against hope that the manuscript exists. Avoiding snipers, hitmen, hooligans, the attentions of strange seventies goons and an alluring, hyper-sexy bad girl with a fetishistic interest in low-life big guy writers.
Developing respect and admiration in an age of endangered male friendships, the odd couple face a race against time to find the manuscript, a contest which leads to a pulse pounding climax, one in which Buddy has to face his deepest, darkest fears.
What readers are saying:
~ A fast paced novel that takes you into the very heart of human nature in regards to greed, laziness and love.
~ Hollywood Shakedown was a phenomenal read; compelling, wonderful, outstanding! Fast-paced with carefully crafted characters.
~ Hollywood Shakedown is a wild ride. No lack of action in this one.
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