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Before his death in 2009, legendary Texas author Edwin 'Bud' Shrake
completed a final novel based on his real-life adventures as a
Hollywood screenwriter in the 1970s and '80s. In this new book, we
meet screenwriter Richard Swift, who has been lured away from his
cushy job at Sports Illustrated to write a movie for Jack Roach, a
matinee idol famous for his electric blue eyes, dimpled chin, and a
swagger that makes women swoon. As Swift and his new movie star
buddy hurtle through days and nights of Hollywood madness, Shrake's
crystalline prose purrs like a Lamborghini speeding along the
Pacific Coast Highway. There are spies and fake houses, mountains
of drugs, weird sex, crimes, and bizarre feuds. In Hollywood Mad
Dogs, Shrake deftly satirizes a world where a screenwriter is
supplied with a bag of cocaine and given a week to write a script,
a star demands that a pet cat be his sidekick on the trail, and two
competing box office titans square off on a golf course, 'each of
them armed with a putter.' This rollicking new novel, discovered
among Shrake's literary papers at the Wittliff Collections,
provides a hilarious and insightful look at the Hollywood meat
grinder. It is a story only Bud Shrake could tell, and it is a
worthy addition to the author's celebrated career, which includes
some of the most highly praised novels written by a Texan.
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