Regina Rawlinson

Daniel Depp

Besser geht's nicht! David Spandau hat die Arbeit als Stuntman aus Altersgründen an den Nagel gehängt, arbeitet als Privatdetektiv und lässt sich regelmäßig beim Rodeo aus dem Sattel werfen. Zudem pflegt er einen starken Hang zum Whiskey, zum guten alten Wilden Westen und zu seiner Exfrau Dee. Sein neuer Auftrag lautet, Bobby Dye, den angesagtesten Shootingstar am Hollywood-Himmel, zu beschützen, weil dieser Morddrohungen erhalten hat. Aber schnell kommt Spandau dahinter, dass der Clubbesitzer und Großdealer Richie Stella etwas gegen den jungen Schauspieler in der Hand hat und ihn erpresst. Mit David Spandau betritt eine melancholisch-sympathische Detektiv-Figur die internationale Thriller-Szene. Hautnah erleben wir die schmutzige Seite der Glitzer- und Glamourwelt von Hollywood. Daniel Depp jagt in seinem schräg-coolen Roman exzentrische Schauspieler, kinobesessene Mafiabosse und liebestrunkene Mörder auf der Suche nach Geld und Ruhm durch die Stadt der Engel. Herrlich böse, hinreißend komisch und überaus spannend.

Roman

Stadt der Verlierer

David Spandau, former stuntman and sometime cowboy, makes his living as a private investigator. His current assignment is Hollywood "it" boy, Bobby Dye, who's been receiving threatening letters. Spandau figures out Bobby's facing another threat—one that could ruin his career just as it's getting started. Loser's Town is gritty noir fiction, but also a Hollywood-insider novel written by someone who knows the town and the industry intimately.

Loser's Town

Fifteen years ago, Anna Mayhew won an Oscar for Best Actress. Rich, famous, and beautiful, she had the world at her feet. Nearly forty years old, Anna is being offered these days only bland supporting roles, the kind she got her acting started with. So she spends much of her time thinking up clever and dangerous methods of self-destruction. But she may not have to kill herself after all. Anna discovers she has a stalker—Vincent, a crazed fan whose idea of love involves a straight razor and lots of blood. What better way to propel the name Anna Mayhew into film immortality? Enter David Spandau, ex-stuntman and private investigator, who has been hired by Anna’s sister Pam to protect the star. But Anna doesn’t want help—until she meets Spandau and decides she needs his intimate protection all the way to the Cannes Film Festival, where she’s slated to be a judge. Spandau finds himself falling for Anna, as well. But there’s the not so small problem of trying to keep a woman alive who’d prefer to be dead. To complicate matters, Vincent has followed Anna to Cannes intent on a bloody consummation of their relationship and he is being tracked by Special, an opera-loving L.A. pimp trying to recover the mob-owned money Vincent stole from him. So a deadly cat-and-mouse game that begins in the meat market of Hollywood culminates at the Roman orgy that is Cannes. Author Depp proves again to have the deadliest and most perceptive eye trained on the entertainment business today. With an enthralling, hair-raising final act, Babylon Nights is a twisted and sharply funny thrill ride that will delight Spandau fans and newcomers alike.

A David Spandau Novel

Babylon Nights

The sensibilities of Hollywood private investigator David Spandau are put to the test when he is hired by a young rising actor at the middle of a filmmaking--and blackmailing--scheme gone wrong. A first novel.

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