Players
by Clay Reynolds
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Author: Clay ReynoldsEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-07
ISBN: 0786704071
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
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Book Review: A thinking man's or woman's supense thriller.
Summary: 5 Stars
Clay Reynolds' first foray into suspense fiction is a success by any standards, but particularly when judged by (gasp!) literary ones. A thinking man's or woman's thriller, PLAYERS features this year's most complex plot and perhaps its most endearing character in the person of Eddy Lovell. Frankly, Eddy is a loser, not a player. Neither his personal nor his criminal life are likely to make him a canidate for anybody's list of Most Successful American Males. His wife runs off, his sister and brother trick him out of both his inheritance and his daughter, and his partner sets him up for a prison sentence. No, Eddy is definitely a failure. Or is he? Looking beyond the obvious (always a prequisite to understanding any Clay Reynolds novel) Eddy is a success at what matters--love, honor, and his own version of honesty. Another failure by contemporary standards is Vicki Sigel, a wannabe actress who succeeds only at roles starring her photogenic feet. When she is kidnapped in place of Eddy's daughter, Vicki reveals a strength of character which makes her a player and a winner at something more important than Hollywood's film game. If Reynolds had only created these two wonderful characters, PLAYERS would be a standout. But he didn't. He created a multitude of believable, politically incorrect, sleasy, bumbling, hopeless, hopeful, funny, violent, pathological, and very REAL characters. PLAYERS is the read of the year in suspense fiction. Doris R. Meredith, Book Editor ROUNDUP MAGAZIN
Summary of Players
Eddy Lovell thinks there are only winners or losers. Eddy has been a loser. Only now he's learned how to work the streets of the Texas underworld and he seems to have put his losses behind him. Vicki Siegel, too, believes there are two kinds of people: winners and wannabes. For most of her life, Vicki has been a wannabe. A small-town girl with great looks and huge ambitions in the tough world of Hollywood. Now she's ready to become the actress she's worked hard to be. Vicki thinks she's a winner. Through a masterfully orchestrated series of feints and double-crosses, Eddy and Vicki learn that winning requires more then a role. Real players compete for much higher stakes than money or fame; they stake their lives. Cloaked identities and masked motives conspire in this gritty, fast-paced suspense thriller to thrust Eddy and Vicki into a violent world of murder, kidnapping, hightech theft and huge amounts of money - a world where it's sometimes impossible to tell who's a player and who is not. Clay Reynolds spins a fast-paced story of multiple deception and underworld intrigue. Humour and irony blend with vengeance and greed on the contemporary American landscape where there are truly no winners, no losers. There are only players.What a great 1950s B movie this thriller by Clay Reynolds would have made! Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, or Sterling Hayden could have played Eddy Lovell to perfection: a smarter-than-average muscleman who drifts into crime almost by accident. As Eddy's employer, a minor league Dallas mobster named Moria Mendle who sells sex and mobile homes, Sam Jaffe would be a top choice. And Elizabeth Scott was born to be Vicki Sigel, a gutsy actress who gets to play the role of her life when kidnappers mistake her for Eddy's daughter. But Reynolds's edgy, stripped-down prose works just fine today; it keeps a complicated story about stolen government CD-ROMs and Eddy's extremely nasty siblings moving like a burning 16-wheeler on a Texas highway. Other books by Reynolds available in paperback include Franklin's Crossing and Rage.
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