Selznick's Confidant: A Novel of 1939 Hollywood
About this ebook
As David O. Selznick pushes himself to exhaustion bringing his four-million-dollar epic, Gone with the Wind, to the screen, unbearable stress and sleepless nights drive him to Luddie for dangerous favors. Luddie soon finds himself embroiled in perilous conflicts far beyond high-society gossip and foxtrotting at the Cocoanut Grove.
Meanwhile, a ruthless adversary from his darker days threatens to expose his true identity and destroy everything he’s built. Worse still, this thug seeks revenge on Selznick by targeting Sea Change—a production Luddie’s close friends will need to succeed.
With his reputation, his future, and the fate of 1939’s greatest movie triumph on the line, Luddie must outwit powerful forces conspiring against him in a town where favors and fraud reign hand-in-hand.
From the author of the Garden of Allah novels comes the engrossing conclusion to the Hollywood’s Greatest Year trilogy—a captivating tale of ambition, deception, and betrayal set during the movie capital’s unparalleled year.
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About the author
A lifelong love of travel, history, and sharing his knowledge with others has led Martin Turnbull down a long path to authorship. Having made the move to the United States from Melbourne, Australia in the mid-90s, Martin staked his claim in the heart of Los Angeles. His background in travel allowed him to work as a private tour guide showing off the alluring vistas, mansions, boulevards, and backlots of the Hollywood scene. With stints in local historical guiding with the Los Angeles Conservancy as well as time on the Warner Bros. movie lot, Martin found himself armed with the kind of knowledge that would fly off the pages of his future works. As a longtime fan of Hollywood’s golden era and old films, Martin decided it was time to marry his knowledge with his passions and breathe life back into this bygone world.
The product of his passions burst forth in the form of the Hollywood’s Garden of Allah books, a series of historical fiction novels set during the golden age of Hollywood: 1927 to 1959. Exploring the evolution of Hollywood’s most famous and glamorous era through the lives of its residents, these stories take place in and around the real-life Garden of Allah Hotel on iconic Sunset Boulevard. Although Martin’s heart belongs to history, his energy remains in the present, continuing to put his passions on paper and beyond.
