Shadow Games and Other Sinister Stories of Show Business
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“Shadow Games unflinchingly examines the dark side of humanity and reaches a finale that is both moving and terrifying.”
—Ramsey Campbell
Cobey Daniels had it all. He was rich, he was young and he was the hottest star in the country. Then there was all that messy business with the teenage girl . . . and it all went to hell for Cobey.
“A darkly mesmeric novel.”
—The London Sunday Times
But that was a few years ago. Now Cobey’s pulled his life together again they’re letting him out of the mental hospital and he’s ready for his big comeback, but the past is still out there, waiting for him. Waiting to show Cobey a hell much more terrible than he could ever have imagined.
The American 90s come brutally alive: “Gorman knows how to shunt electricity into the raw nerve endings buried far below the reader’s already clammy skin.”
—Locus
Ed Gorman
Ed Gorman's western fiction has won the Spur Award and his crime fiction has won the Shamus and Anthony Awards and has been shortlisted for the Edgar® Award. In addition, his writing has appeared in Redbook, the New York Times, Ellery Queen Magazine, Poetry Today, and other publications.
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