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Boland Rand is an aspiring New York novelist. He's making little progress in his literary pursuits, despite 10 years of effort. One day, an old friend of his offers Rand a lucrative chance to do some publicity-writing for Jupiter Studios in Hollywood. The job? Fabricate a fictitious past for a soon-to-be Big Star stage-named Honey Horne. For that, Rand will be paid handsomely--$3,000 per week (in 1986 dollars)!
One catch: Rand is told never to inquire about Honey Horne's real past. The studio is especially intent on keeping the public in the dark about Ms Horne's first movie, "Sandscreen."
And then there's this eerie fact: Rand isn't the first person to have the Honey Horne assignment. Rand's predecessor died suddenly under iffy circumstances. Maybe it was just an "accident," but...
One thing follows another, and piece by piece, Rand comes to learn more about Honey Horne's past.
Problem is, whoever confides a new piece of the puzzle to Rand soon ends up dead.
A short, enjoyable book.
One catch: Rand is told never to inquire about Honey Horne's real past. The studio is especially intent on keeping the public in the dark about Ms Horne's first movie, "Sandscreen."
And then there's this eerie fact: Rand isn't the first person to have the Honey Horne assignment. Rand's predecessor died suddenly under iffy circumstances. Maybe it was just an "accident," but...
One thing follows another, and piece by piece, Rand comes to learn more about Honey Horne's past.
Problem is, whoever confides a new piece of the puzzle to Rand soon ends up dead.
A short, enjoyable book.
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