Hollywood Tough by Stephen J. Cannell

Hollywood Tough



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Hollywood Tough Stephen J. Cannell
Language: English
Page: 448
Format: epub
ISBN: 0312989423, 9780312989422
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks

From Publishers Weekly

It's tough to tell the hardened criminals from the corrupt Tinseltown players in Cannell's latest (after The Viking Funeral), an overplotted yet entertaining detective novel that follows L.A. gumshoe Shane Scully and his gorgeous wife, Alexa, as they try to trap a mobster by sponsoring a high-profile movie. The fun starts when Scully runs into a small-time hood he once busted, Nicky Marcella, who is running a film studio that turns out to be a thinly veiled scam to lure beautiful, scantily clad women into phony auditions. But Scully also discovers a link between Marcella and major mob player "Champagne" Dennis Valentine, and after digging around a bit Scully learns that Valentine is making a major push to take over the various low-level Hollywood unions. Scully uses his relationship with Marcella to cozy up to Valentine, then concocts a sting operation to bust the mobster by having the LAPD finance a phony film and catch Valentine in the act. The plotting gets too busy when Cannell introduces a gang war subplot that features Scully's adopted Hispanic son, Cooch, whose efforts to escape gang life fail when his girlfriend is kidnapped during a battle between several gangs over a major heroin shipment. Cannell, creator of such TV shows as The A Team, clearly knows the ins and outs of the entertainment industry, and the detective story, with its wry, subtle humor, doubles as a Hollywood satire. Most of the cops-and-robbers sequences hit the mark as well, and the well-drawn characters and keen observations on the similarities between Hollywood and the mafia make this a winner.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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LAPD investigator Shane Scully agrees to return a favor to former snitch Nicky Marcella, a street hustler turned shady movie producer. He wants Shane to find Carol White, his former New Jersey high school classmate and an aspiring actress. What Shane finds is that she's abandoned her dreams for an abyss of drugs and prostitution, but her core of inherent decency touches him. When she's murdered, he refuses to allow her to be dismissed as just another dead whore. He starts with Nicky, who's fronting a Mob-connected movie production company that is using muscle to infiltrate key labor unions. Evidently Carol's past collided with the Mob's plans, and she became expendable. Shane and Nicky--both guilt-ridden over their unwitting roles in her death--form an uneasy alliance to find Carol's killer. Cannell, Emmy-winning creator of shows such as The Rockford Files, applies his insider knowledge of Hollywood business to great effect, much as Elmore Leonard did in Get Shorty (1990). This is an entertaining mix of thrills, humor, and street justice as Shane and Nicky--reminiscent of Jim Rockford and his weasel sidekick, Angel--use their wits to run a complicated sting and bring the bad guys to their knees. Wes Lukowsky
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