Hollywood Hustle
A Thriller
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3.9 • 30 Ratings
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Publisher Description
USA TODAY BESTSELLER
From 4-time Emmy-nominated actor Jon Lindstrom of General Hospital, Bosch, and True Detective fame, comes a gripping debut thriller.
Set in the dark underbelly of the LA film industry, Hollywood Hustle is "a high stakes, high octane thrill ride. Lindstrom, a Hollywood insider, is the real deal.” —Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite series
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
General Hospital actor Lindstrom debuts with a ho-hum thriller about a movie star caught up in a kidnapping plot. Aging actor Winston Greene discovers that his daughter, Clarissa, has been kidnapped when a man shows up at his suburban Los Angeles home with Clarissa's six-year-old daughter, Amy, in tow. Amy hands Winston a thumb drive with a video of Clarissa's abduction on it, and her captors demand Winston's "movie money" as payment for her return. His accounts, however, have long dried up, so Winston enlists two friends, cop Teddy Beauregard and stunt man Grover Washington, to help him track down and rescue Clarissa. There's no shortage of violent action, and Lindstrom manages a few effective cliffhangers, but he too often relies on excessive description ("A very thin, very old man lay prostrate on the bed. His chest was concave, his extremities pencil like") and paint-by-numbers characterization to make up for the threadbare plot. Even hardcore fans of L.A. noir are likely to find this lacking.
Customer Reviews
Afternoon delight
Interesting plot, fast moving story
I enjoyed it and read it in one afternoon
Looking forward to his next novel
Excellent!
Great story, interesting characters, and an easy style. Love the main man Winston, he’s a cool cat!
Listened to ALC
The writing places you right in the heart of the action, seeing these characters, even feeling their anxiety. You’ll bite your nails while cheering some on and wishing failure upon others. Hollywood Hustle is a must read and you will want to know what’s coming next. Reviewed with Netgalley copy but I will order a copy for a gift.