{"product_id":"someone-to-watch-over-me-audiobook","title":"Someone to Watch Over Me (audiobook)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“If Raymond Chandler had turned a steely eye to the notorious Hollywood casting couch, the result might well be called \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSomeone To Watch Over Me\u003c\/em\u003e.”—Malcolm Brooks, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePainted Horses\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCloudmaker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHollywood, 1947. Jack Shannon, a former actor whose promising career was interrupted by the war and ended by a facial scar sustained in combat, is now a studio publicist.  He jokes that the only thing he knows about publicity is how to suppress it, but that, in fact, is his real job.  He’s a fixer who babysits the studio’s stars and covers up their bad behavior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEverything changes for Jack when Savannah Stevens enters his life.  A sexpot star in the mold of Jean Harlow and the studio’s biggest box-office draw, she’s a deeply troubled young woman given to emotional breakdowns, unexplained absences from the set, and time-devouring delays occasioned by her paralyzing insecurities and her insistence on dozens of takes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJack’s job is to stay with her 24\/7, deliver her to the set on time each day, and make sure she completes her current picture, a picture on which the future of the studio depends.  All goes well until Savannah disappears, and Jack is assigned the task of finding her…without revealing to anyone, including the police, that she is missing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“There was Sam Spade, Lew Archer, Travis McGee. Now there is Jack Shannon.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Jameson Parker, Recovering Actor (\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSimon and Simon\u003c\/em\u003e), Working Writer (\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDancing with the Dead)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"A perfect film noir filled with scoundrels, scandals and skullduggery against the backdrop of the land of make-believe. SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME travels the boulevard of broken dreams with wit, vigor and shocking surprises. One of the best reads I've had in a long time.\"\u003cbr\u003e- The Movie Guys\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAUTHOR PROFILE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLISTEN TO AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWrong Place, Write Crime interview\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BearManor Digital","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49491812188419,"sku":"evz1787292056437","price":6.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0756\/2202\/3427\/files\/someone-to-watch-over-me-audiobook_1.jpg?v=1787292062","url":"https:\/\/trendpulseboutique.shop\/products\/someone-to-watch-over-me-audiobook","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}