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FROM THE PUBLISHER
Nick Gardner is a fashion photographer
of the highest caliber. His erotically-charged photos grace every
major magazine in the world. He is a superstar shooter in a town
filled with supermodels, desperate wannabes, and burned-out has-beens.
His peers consider him cold and impenetrable. A loner who will
let no one see beyond his carefully crafted facade. See, Nick
has a secret. Another identity, buried for more than a decade.
An entirely different career that has been hidden and denied.
And a murder.
From the sun-bleached shores
of Malibu to the pages of Vogue and the porno empires
headquartered in the San Fernando Valley, Shooters reveals
the naked truth behind the twin worlds of high fashion and hardcore,
where the difference between the two can be a well-chosen shadow
or a brazen shaft of light.
PRAISE FOR SHOOTERS
"Fashion photographer Nick
Gardner may uncover a lot of models, but he's keeping a dark
secret under wraps. Set in glitzy L.A., written by a veteran
screenwriter/producer/director, and optioned by Tristar, this
is the perfect Hollywood novel."
Library
Journal
"Lankford breathtakingly
tosses the reader into a Hollywood snake pit that is at once
compelling and repugnant."
Dallas
Morning News
"Violent, gritty, cynical,
and provocative, Shooters takes you on a wild ride through
seamy, narcissistic L.A., where the threatening pall of smoke
from fires in the hills hangs over everything."
Lev
Raphael, The Detroit Free Press
"Shooters
cooks! This is a blood thriller that will vibrate your vindaloo!
Terrill Lankford has crafted a truly bitchin' novel that will
keep you up nights howling at the moon! Read it or be deprived!"
James Ellroy
"Shooters
is excellent. It grabs you on page one and won't turn you loose."
Robert
B. Parker
"Shooters marks a
fine noir debut by Terrill lankford. Welcome to the land of twists
and turns."
Gerald
Petievich
"Wizard! A witty, bawdy,
staccato, suspenseful, and very hip update of Nathanael west's
Day of the Locust. not just an exposé of the L.A. scene, the wacky fashion world, the porn world, the recreational-druggie culture, but also a perceptive look into ALL of us inhabiting the 1990's."
Gary Jennings
"Fiction doesn't get much
more hard-boiled than Shooters, a nihilistic view of Los
Angeles that's darker than the back of the moon."
David
Freeman
"This book starts with an
orgasm at 70 MPH in the front seat of a Lamborghini Diablo on
Sunset Boulevard and ends with a firestorm on The Pacific Coast
Highway, and in between has more serious sex, serious drugs and
serious rock'n'roll than you could shake a stick at, an old murder,
several new murders and a search for truth through LA's sleazy
heart... Written at a speed that seems to suggest that someone
put amphetamine in his tea, Terrill Lankford (Couldn't invent
that name) has written a novel that is both unpleasant and riveting,
and like the sensation junkie that I am, I'm certainly going
to go back and investigate his other novels."
Mark
Timlin
"Lankford's writing is gritty,
fast moving, and very dark. Damn, it's good."
Rick McMahan, Over My Dead Body!
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