Hollywood Hustle

Winston Greene, a has-been film star, wakes one morning to find his six-year-old granddaughter at his bedside - traumatized, unattended, and gripping onto a thumb drive. She comes bearing video proof that her mother, Win''s troubled adult daughter, has been kidnapped by a murderous gang demanding all his ''movie money'' for her safe return. But what they don''t know is his movie money is long gone. Unable to go to the police for fear the kidnappers will make good on their promise to kill his daughter, Winston turns to two close friends - a legendary Hollywood stuntman and a disgraced former LAPD detective. There''s no easy way out for Winston or his daughter - the gang is violent and willing to do anything to get the money they''re after, and Winston begins to realize that to get his daughter back, he''ll have to beat the kidnappers at their own game. This propulsive and tense thriller will transport readers to the seedier side of LA, depicted in bold prose by a Hollywood insider.