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Head Games: A Hector Lassiter novel by Craig McDonald

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5.0

WOW! Definitely not for the faint of heart by any stretch of the imagination. Takes place in the late '50's, Lassiter writes pulp fiction and is in the middle of being interviewed for a magazine when the beginning of all hell breaking loose happens.
Everything spirals from there. Gritty, grim, bleak, adventure, blood, severed heads.....McDonald weaves actual personalities into the story: Orson Welles, Marlene Dietrich, Ernest Hemingway, Prescott Bush [that Bush family] sprinkled throughout. Hollywood reigns, with the head of Pancho Villa at the center.
Rough listening, but an excellent story.
Definitely recommend.
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