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Now, for the first time anywhere, both of Lee Goldberg's widely acclaimed "Charlie Willis" crime novels -- MY GUN HAS BULLETS and DEAD SPACE -- are combined together, complete and uncut, in one incredibly low-priced ebook.
MY GUN HAS BULLETS
When Beverly Hills Police Officer Charlie Willis pulls over a speeding Rolls Royce hell-bent for Neiman Marcus, he's surprised to see Esther Radcliffe, the geriatric star of the TV series "Miss Agatha," behind the wheel. He's even more surprised when she guns him down and keeps on driving. A few hours later, he wakes up in the intensive care unit...to find a William Morris agent, a network president, and the head of Pinnacle Studios standing at the foot of his bed. They have a proposal for in exchange for conveniently forgetting who shot him, they'll make him the star of his own series, "My Gun Has Bullets." So Charlie trades in his real badge for a fake one...and so begins an uproarious but deadly romp through the wonderful world of TV make-believe...with real bullets.
"It will make you cackle like a sitcom laugh track. Goldberg keeps the gags coming right up to the end. "--Entertainment Weekly
"A very funny novel...a pinch of Carl Hiaasen, a dash of Donald Westlake, and a heaping portion of avarice and inanity Hollywood Style. It's boffo! "-- Booklist
DEAD SPACE
Ex-cop Charlie Willis handles "special security" at Pinnacle Pictures. His to protect the studio and its stars, to stop scandals before they explode, to keep the peace in the land of make-believe. When Pinnacle revives the cult, 1960s TV series "Beyond the Beyond" as the cornerstone of a fourth network, two powerful forces fight for control of the show--a talent agency that uses blackmail, torture, and murder to keep its clients on the A-list, and a homicidal legion of rabid fans led by an insane actor who thinks he's in outer space.
(This book was originally entitled "Beyond the Beyond" when it was published by St. Martin's Press in 1997)
"[It] reads like a modern-day Alice in Wonderland set against the venal world of the TV industry. It's wonderfully revealing and uncannily accurate," Vancouver Sun (Canada)
"The novel's satiric slant is strong enough to have an effigy of Goldberg beamed into outer space at the next Star Trek convention," Los Angeles Times
"This sharp roman a clef goes where no Hollywood satire has gone before--altering just enough facts to avoid the libel courts but still smacking of a certain je ne sais Trek. It probably won't make Goldberg, a television writer and producer (Baywatch, For Hire, seaQuest) , the most popular boy on the Paramount lot, but it's a stingingly funny novel just the same. "
--Entertainment Weekly
"Goldberg once again bites the hand that feeds him, laughing all the while. Inspired silliness," Publishers Weekly
BONUS This special Kindle edition includes a sample chapter from Lee Goldberg's THE MAN WITH THE IRON-ON BADGE.
Writer/producer Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar Award nominee whose many TV credits include DIAGNOSIS MURDER, MONK, SEAQUEST, and THE GLADES. His many novels include the Kindle sensation THE WALK and the bestselling MONK mystery novels, based on the hit TV series, which he also wrote for.
MY GUN HAS BULLETS
When Beverly Hills Police Officer Charlie Willis pulls over a speeding Rolls Royce hell-bent for Neiman Marcus, he's surprised to see Esther Radcliffe, the geriatric star of the TV series "Miss Agatha," behind the wheel. He's even more surprised when she guns him down and keeps on driving. A few hours later, he wakes up in the intensive care unit...to find a William Morris agent, a network president, and the head of Pinnacle Studios standing at the foot of his bed. They have a proposal for in exchange for conveniently forgetting who shot him, they'll make him the star of his own series, "My Gun Has Bullets." So Charlie trades in his real badge for a fake one...and so begins an uproarious but deadly romp through the wonderful world of TV make-believe...with real bullets.
"It will make you cackle like a sitcom laugh track. Goldberg keeps the gags coming right up to the end. "--Entertainment Weekly
"A very funny novel...a pinch of Carl Hiaasen, a dash of Donald Westlake, and a heaping portion of avarice and inanity Hollywood Style. It's boffo! "-- Booklist
DEAD SPACE
Ex-cop Charlie Willis handles "special security" at Pinnacle Pictures. His to protect the studio and its stars, to stop scandals before they explode, to keep the peace in the land of make-believe. When Pinnacle revives the cult, 1960s TV series "Beyond the Beyond" as the cornerstone of a fourth network, two powerful forces fight for control of the show--a talent agency that uses blackmail, torture, and murder to keep its clients on the A-list, and a homicidal legion of rabid fans led by an insane actor who thinks he's in outer space.
(This book was originally entitled "Beyond the Beyond" when it was published by St. Martin's Press in 1997)
"[It] reads like a modern-day Alice in Wonderland set against the venal world of the TV industry. It's wonderfully revealing and uncannily accurate," Vancouver Sun (Canada)
"The novel's satiric slant is strong enough to have an effigy of Goldberg beamed into outer space at the next Star Trek convention," Los Angeles Times
"This sharp roman a clef goes where no Hollywood satire has gone before--altering just enough facts to avoid the libel courts but still smacking of a certain je ne sais Trek. It probably won't make Goldberg, a television writer and producer (Baywatch, For Hire, seaQuest) , the most popular boy on the Paramount lot, but it's a stingingly funny novel just the same. "
--Entertainment Weekly
"Goldberg once again bites the hand that feeds him, laughing all the while. Inspired silliness," Publishers Weekly
BONUS This special Kindle edition includes a sample chapter from Lee Goldberg's THE MAN WITH THE IRON-ON BADGE.
Writer/producer Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar Award nominee whose many TV credits include DIAGNOSIS MURDER, MONK, SEAQUEST, and THE GLADES. His many novels include the Kindle sensation THE WALK and the bestselling MONK mystery novels, based on the hit TV series, which he also wrote for.
427 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 12, 2011
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Lee Goldberg
118 books2,136 followersLee Goldberg is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over forty novels, including Malibu Burning, Calico, Lost Hills (the first novel in his acclaimed "Eve Ronin" series), 15 "Monk" mysteries, five "Fox & O'Hare" adventures (co-written with Janet Evanovich), and the new thriller Ashes Never Lie, the second in his "Sharpe & Walker" series.. He's written and/or produced many TV shows, including Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, and Monk and he co-created the Hallmark movie series Mystery 101.
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February 27, 2020
How much drivel can one stand?
I must admit that I couldn't suffer through but 10 chapters before the need to spew made me go straight to the end. So much sex,character insanity, and far fetched plot ideas,that even television couldn't make up. Sorry but am certainly not a fan!
I must admit that I couldn't suffer through but 10 chapters before the need to spew made me go straight to the end. So much sex,character insanity, and far fetched plot ideas,that even television couldn't make up. Sorry but am certainly not a fan!
February 25, 2014
My kindle lending library choise for this month. Unfortunately not a good one. IF you like this kind of book it is a real bargain, because it is the first TWO books in the series, BUT...
The premise spounds like a lot of un, but the writing is very crude and vulgar in its vocabulary and humor and full of Hollywood-insider jokes that I do not understand & am not interested in. I couldn't be bothered to finish the first one. For the record, I do not mind off-color humor, but I want it to be a bit more tasteful.
So far Goldberg is 2 for 3. His Monk series is charming, just as the TV show was, but this series and the one based on Diagnosis Murder are definitely not my cup of tea.
The premise spounds like a lot of un, but the writing is very crude and vulgar in its vocabulary and humor and full of Hollywood-insider jokes that I do not understand & am not interested in. I couldn't be bothered to finish the first one. For the record, I do not mind off-color humor, but I want it to be a bit more tasteful.
So far Goldberg is 2 for 3. His Monk series is charming, just as the TV show was, but this series and the one based on Diagnosis Murder are definitely not my cup of tea.
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