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Dream Town: 3 (An Archer Novel)

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The way she said it was a bit sad, thought Archer. It was as though she just wanted a friend to be out there fighting for a career right alongside her. Archer glanced at Callahan, who appeared to take this comment hard. The rest of her sidecar disappeared down her throat. It could be a wonderful place to live, if you had money, were famous, or both, which Archer didn’t and wasn’t. Over the years, he’d worked a slew of tough cases, and had come to know the town and its denizens maybe better than he would have liked.

The LA setting is wonderfully described and made it easy to visualise all the exotic cars and the beautiful homes of the Hollywood stars. There was plenty of name dropping too - so many greats were around in the early fifties. Highly recommended and no real need to read the earlier two books although it is probably more fun if you do. He took all this in and said, “Well, if it makes you feel better, I pull in a fraction of what you make when crime is really good, but I do get most Sundays and Christmas off.” Dream Town is the third installment in #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci’s Nero Award-winning series. Dream Town (2022) continues the journey of Baldacci's late 1940's/early 1950's hardboiled detective character Aloysius Archer who was introduced in One Good Deed (2019) with a follow-up in A Gambling Man (2021). He gave her a look that perhaps hoped to compel a deeper answer to his statement than was warranted under the circumstances, only the lady didn’t bite.Baldacci's novels have been published in over 45 languages and in more than 80 countries, with over 130 million worldwide sales as of 2018. [9] Bibliography [ edit ] Sean King and Michelle Maxwell series [ edit ] Archer catches a new client at a New Year’s Eve bash, Eleanor, she then disappears and never paid Archer, so is she really a client? Soon there’s a murder victim, shady cops and Archer is chasing answers. There is glitz and glamour with a seedy underbelly of bent cops, mobsters and drugs. His friend Liberty Callahan is still trying to become a star in Hollywood, like scores of others. Their relationship suffers as he takes too many risks. His dangerous lifestyle is too much for her.

Hollywood is "Dream Town" filled with powerful people, money, sex, and schemers. Everyone lies and it is hard to find the truth but Archer is determined to find Lamb and a murderer. The story takes the reader from Hollywood to Las Vegas. From movie stars to the mob. Nothing is glamorous in Dream Town. When Eleanor discovers Archer is a private eye, she hires him on the spot to help her. She describes getting mysterious calls during the night, an unknown blue car parked across the street from her house, and someone breaking into house and leaving a bloody knife in her kitchen sink. Eleanor is afraid, thinking her life is in danger, hoping that Archer can discover the cause of what’s happening to her. We (along with Archer) are reunited with wannabe starlet Liberty Callahan here – though she’s more of a sounding board (and object of desire) than involved in Archer’s case. Dream Town It’s sort of a voyeuristic mystery story. Anyway, there’s a nifty female lead character, described as tall, blond, and assertive—you know, professional with her own career, but still looking for the right man to give her a ring and babies.”When they got inside he watched as Callahan looked around at all the legendary stars partying there. Her manner at first became subdued, as though she was as overwhelmed by this as any out-oftowner would have been. But then her expression changed to one of sheer excitement to be in their company. Archer’s takes him behind the scenes of the Hollywood power elite, the dark sides of Los Angeles, and the glitzy world of Las Vegas, as he tries to piece together the connection between the dead body and Elanor’s disappearance. He finds himself going up against a dangerous mobster killer in Chinatown, power wielding movie producers and directors, untrusting and hard-edged county police investigators, and numerous suspects hiding secrets and relationships that hinder Archer from finding a killer and solving his case, as well as its impact on his personal relationship with Liberty. Edoardo Ballerini и Brittany Pressley, които успяват да придадат на всеки един от персонажите отделна индивидуалност, дарявайки ги със собствени отличителни гласове, историята оживява почти като филм. It is 1953 and Archer is in Los Angeles to visit friend and rising star, actress Liberty Callahan. Through her he meets script writer, Eleanor Lamb, who hires him to investigate who is threatening her life. Then she disappears, Archer trips over a corpse, and he is caught up in a wild investigation which includes Hollywood actors, gangsters, drugs, people smuggling and more.

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