6/28/2023 0 Comments Hollywood babylon book![]() ![]() When not having sex with his landlady and sundry other characters, he helps solve a kidnapping of the daughter to a starlet and thwart the machinations of a red-baiting hack politician. Harry has come back to America and settled in California where he has dyed his hair blonde and taken a job as a security guard at a studio. If you want to feel good about yourself and your life choices, read this book and you will relate more to St. I am still not sure how Chaykin managed to fit so much depravity in between two covers, but I felt like I was reading a Harold Robbins novel! (Yes, years ago I read a few and the taste has never left my mouth!) Again, Harold Kraft, a true anti-hero, takes us along on his adventures and we are exposed to the seamy side of Hollywood (Is there another side?), bump into organized crime, are introduced to an amalgam of Senator McCarthy, and much more. Woah! This is not a book for the faint of heart. ![]()
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