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Searchlights and Shadows: A Novel of Golden-Era Hollywood

A Fiction, Historical book. This is the last book in the Garden of Allah series (so far!) and I absolutely loved it. In this...

Have you ever wanted to climb into a time machine and visit Hollywood during its heyday? At the dawn of 1942, the dark days of Pearl Harbor still loom over Los Angeles. America is now at war, and posters warn home-front Hollywoodites that loose lips sink ships.Wartime propaganda is the name of the game, and the studios are expected to conjure stories that galvanize the public for the war effort. Marcus Adler is an MGM screenwriter whose latest movie was stolen out from under his whiskey glass, and he's determined it won't happen again. He comes up with a sure-fire hit, but his chance to triumph is threatened by a vicious rumor: "Marcus Adler is a goddamned Commie."Gwendolyn Brick is the...

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