Shooters

Nick Gardner is a fashion photographer of the highest caliber. His erotically-charged photos grace every major magazine in the world. He is a superstar shooter in a town filled with supermodels, desperate wannabes, and burned-out has-beens. His peers consider him cold and impenetrable. A loner who will let no one see beyond his carefully crafted facade. See, Nick has a secret. Another identity, buried for more than a decade. An entirely different career that has been hidden and denied.

And a murder.

From the sun-bleached shores of Malibu to the pages of Vogue and the porno empires headquartered in the San Fernando Valley, Shooters reveals the naked truth behind the twin worlds of high fashion and hardcore, where the difference between the two can be a well-chosen shadow or a brazen shaft of light.

"Fashion photographer Nick Gardner may uncover a lot of models, but he's keeping a dark secret under wraps. Set in glitzy L.A., written by a veteran screenwriter/producer/director, and optioned by Tristar, this is the perfect Hollywood novel." -Library Journal

"Lankford breathtakingly tosses the reader into a Hollywood snake pit that is at once compelling and repugnant."

-Dallas Morning News

"Shooters cooks! This is a blood thriller that will vibrate your vindaloo! Terrill Lankford has crafted a truly bitchin' novel that will keep you up nights howling at the moon! Read it or be deprived!"

-James Ellroy

"Shooters is excellent. It grabs you on page one and won't turn you loose."

- Robert B. Parker

"'Shooters' is a dark, speeding ride on LA's fast lane. It's like you're watching a car accident. Once it starts to unfold you can't look away. You're hooked."

-Michael Connelly

"Shooters marks a fine noir debut by Terrill lankford. Welcome to the land of twists and turns."

- Gerald Petievich

"A witty, bawdy, staccato, suspenseful, and very hip update of Nathanael west's Day of the Locust. not just an exposé of the L.A. scene, the wacky fashion world, the porn world, the recreational-druggie culture, but also a perceptive look into ALL of us inhabiting the 1990's."

-Gary Jennings

"Fiction doesn't get much more hard-boiled than Shooters, a nihilistic view of Los Angeles that's darker than the back of the moon."

- David Freeman

"This book starts with an orgasm at 70 MPH in the front seat of a Lamborghini Diablo on Sunset Boulevard and ends with a firestorm on The Pacific Coast Highway, and in between has more serious sex, serious drugs and serious rock'n'roll than you could shake a stick at, an old murder, several new murders and a search for truth through LA's sleazy heart... Written at a speed that seems to suggest that someone put amphetamine in his tea, Terrill Lankford (Couldn't invent that name) has written a novel that is both unpleasant and riveting, and like the sensation junkie that I am, I'm certainly going to go back and investigate his other novels."

- Mark Timlin

"Lankford's writing is gritty, fast moving, and very dark. Damn, it's good."

-Rick McMahan, Over My Dead Body!