Shot on Location Author: Laurence Shames | Language: English | ISBN:
B00EOB078Q | Format: EPUB
Shot on Location Description
Take three speedboats, a disgruntled ghostwriter, and a hit TV show starring a gorgeous but impossible diva and created by a driven genius who may be losing his marbles. Add a fearless and gleefully profane stuntwoman, an ancient Mafioso with a chihuahua, and a revenge-crazed blonde in gladiator sandals. Stir in a thug with a heart of gold and an inveterate slacker who yearns for glory. Whisk a loopy but tender romance into the mix, turn the whole crew loose in the liberating and seductive sunshine of the Florida Keys—and what do you have?
SHOT ON LOCATION, the new and long-awaited Key West novel by Laurence Shames.
Hilarious and suspenseful, wisecracking and wise, this is the most intoxicating story yet from the author of such cult classics as FLORIDA STRAITS and SUNBURN. Longtime Shames fans will rejoice at his return to the fictional turf of Key West and the reappearance of some of his most beloved characters. And new readers will find themselves in for a hell of a ride as Hollywood glitz meets Florida funky.
- File Size: 382 KB
- Print Length: 226 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1491241454
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
- Publisher: SKLA (August 19, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00EOB078Q
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,987 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
You probably can't hear it from where you sit, but there is jubilation in the land.
Readers are celebrating a new title from Laurence Shames. And better yet, the return of Joey and Bert and the whole off-center population and enchanting physique of Key West. Cause for celebration, indeed.
Of course this isn't the first book Larry wrote since he moved out of the Keys. "The Angels' Share" was very nice, and a surprising new direction for him. But it's kind of like going to a B.B. King concert and he plays a bluegrass number or a finger picking Segovia concerto. Nice, but not what you came for. But when he goes back to de blooze, it only takes a few notes for you to know he's back on home turf. And as soon as the Cadillac with the starred windshield shows up, you know back in good hands.
But not the "same old same old", exactly. Yeah, the Yawkers are there, and Miami mobsters lurk like mooching sharks. But this is a different kind of story, about different people.
The lead character, Jake, is a prominent ghostwriter a little burnt because his knack for writing best-sellers for other people has kept him from expressing his own voice. Not a stretch, more like a "write what you know" riff for Mr. Shames, who originally made his bones by ghostwriting a NYT best-seller for somebody else. What's stretchy here, perhaps, is that this book is a different breed of fish from his earlier Key West works: it veers towards other genres, rather the sui generis Shames created with the "Florida Straits" series. It's a familiar gesture, I guess you'd say: a self-appointed sleuth running around talking to a bunch of people trying to find out "Whoduunit?"
But "It" isn't a murder.
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