L'echange mortel

After turning a film student's directorial debut into a hit movie, New York mobster and movie fanatic Vinnie Callabrese takes off for the bright lights of Hollywood, where he begins a new life as Michael Vincent, Producer. A natural born wheeler-dealer, he lands not only a major studio deal, but also a gorgeous actress girlfriend. It isn't long before Michael Vincent is one of the most successful producers in town, given his knack for bringing in films under budget -- not too difficult when you're willing to lie, seduce, intimidate, and even kill to get what you want. But some of the people from his past have long memories and a far reach, and now it's Michael's turn to watch his back. Because even in the land of make-believe certain enemies -- and their bullets -- are very real.

L.A. Times - A Novel

Holly Barker n'est pas seulement le chef de la police d'Orchid Beach, Floride. C'est également une femme dont la sensualité n'a d'égale que l'obstination. Trini Rodriguez, le mafieux dont elle a juré la perte, peut donc trembler quand elle débarque à New York pour l'arrêter. N'a-t-elle pas failli le tuer, la dernière fois qu'ils se sont croisés ? Malgré ses crimes, Rodriguez semble pourtant intouchable : il bénéficie de la protection du FBI. Mais, outre son entêtement, Holly dispose d'un atout : Stone Barrington, l'ancien flic devenu avocat. Etincelles garanties !

Abandon sans scrupule

First there were roses and the notes in her mailbox signed simply, "Admirer." Then, the accident. One minute Chris Callaway was one of Hollywood's brightest rising stars, starting a new picture that could send her career skyrocketing; the next, she was falling from the unfinished deck of her beautiful new Malibu beach house...waking up blind, uncertain whether she would ever see again. An optimist and a fighter, Chris is determined not to let anyone know she can barely see. But neither Danny Devere, her hairdresser and confidant, nor Jon Larsen, the handsome young detective form LAPD's special stalker squad, can stop the notes that escalate into a chilling obsession. And as Stuart Woods's mesmerizing new page-turner races to its shocking climax, only a clever trap can stop the madman from stalking her--with beautiful Chris Callaway as the deadly bait.

Dead Eyes - Novel, A

A standalone novel from Stuart Woods, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington and Holly Barker series... Murder is not a spectator sport. Chuck Chandler has choked on more than one occasion-first as a pro tennis player at Wimbledon, then as a womanizing coach at posh tennis clubs around the country. Now at Key West's Old Racquet Club, Chuck gets involved with the wrong married woman-the enticing Clare Carras, married to an enigmatic older man-and soon he is in way over his head. Enter Tommy Sculley, a retired New York homicide detective who has just joined the Key West force, and his young green partner, Daryl Haynes, who turns out to be smarter than he looks. Up to their necks in an investigation of a bizarre apparent homicide, the two detectives barely keep afloat in murky waters. Events take them from the Florida Keys to Los Angeles and back, as a plot emerges that involves not only the dangerous Clare, but a furious West Coast mob boss determined to get back what is his at any cost.

Choke

A standalone novel from Stuart Woods, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington and Holly Barker series...Chuck Chandler arrives in Key West, and, like many people, finds it the end of the line. He has, in turn, blown a career as a top touring tennis professional and a series of teaching jobs at plush clubs, usually because he has been unable to keep his hands off the female students, especially the married ones.At Key West’s Olde Island Racquet Club, true to form, Chuck yields to temptation yet again, this time with the beautiful Clare Carras, who is married to an enigmatic older man with no apparent past, and who turns out to be a great deal more than the tennis pro can handle. Suddenly the easygoing Chuck is in over his head, suspected of murder and on the verge of losing not only his modest teaching career and all his possessions, but his freedom, as well.Enter Tommy Scully, a former New York Police Department homicide detective, augmenting his pension with a job on the Key West force, and his neophyte partner, Daryl, who may be smarter than he looks. The two detectives find themselves barely afloat in a shark infested investigation that stretches from the Florida Keys to Los Angeles and back, involving not only the treacherous Clare, but a furious West Coat mob boss who is determined to get back something that belongs to him and doesn’t care who he has to kill to do it.

La Veuve Noire

Petit truand new-yorkais, Vinnie Callabrese collecte l'argent dû à son employeur : la Mafia. Mais Vinnie est surtout un fanatique de cinéma, qui rêve d'être producteur et de côtoyer les stars.
Une occasion inespérée lui permet de transformer son rêve en réalité. Nanti d'une nouvelle identité, il part pour la côte Ouest, où son absence de scrupules lui permet de se faire une place au soleil parmi les Major Companies et de devenir l'un des producteurs les plus en vue. Jusqu'au jour où un vieux copain, Tommy Provenzano, resurgit dans sa vie et le débarrasse opportunément d'un avocat qui le gênait dans ses affaires...
On n'échappe pas à son passé. Surtout lorsque l'usine à rêves hollywoodienne permet de recycler l'argent du crime. Vinnie comprend vite que sa descente aux enfers va commencer.
Un roman noir grinçant dans la veine de Elmore Leonard ou Donald Westlake.  

Envoûtant, musical et nerveux, Hollywood Mafia semble avoir été écrit tout spécialement pour Scorsese ou Tarantino. On le referme en espérant le voir un jour porté à l'écran. Le Figaro Magazine Stuart Woods, auteur d'Échange mortel, Grand Prix de littérature policière 1997, occupe la place singulière d'inventeur du thriller-roman de moeurs. Il est décédé en 2022.

Hollywood Mafia

Sandy Kinsolving's once-glittering life hangs by a threat; his future depends on his wife's inheritance and whether or not she's about to throw him out on his ear. What he wouldn't give for a solution to his money and marriage problems. If this were an Alfred Hitchcock movie, the solution would be obvious. Enter a stranger with wife problems of his own, who offers a violent -- and mutually advantageous -- proposal. Them in the time it takes to whisper a word, Kinsolving's normal life ends. What radiates like a mirage before him is wealth, security, and freedom. But lurking in the shadows are a brutal murder he cannot prevent, and a madman who stalks his every waking moment.

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