Bad Company, Steve Wick
Bad Company, Steve Wick
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Bad Company

Author: Steve Wick

Narrator: Stephen Yankee

Unabridged: 7 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 08/01/2008


Synopsis

In 1983, Roy Radin, would-be impresario, joined forces with fading movie producer Robert Evans and Elaine "Laney" Jacobs, a woman with the burning ambition to use the millions she had made by drug dealing to buy her way into the movie industry. Together they planned to finance the movie Cotton Club. When Radin's body was found miles away from Los Angeles, the police had few clues and eventually had to put the investigation on hold. At the request of Radin's mother, New York Newsday's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Steve Wick, began looking into Radin's last weeks and soon unearthed the sordid connection between deal making and drug dealing that set all Hollywood on its ear. Bad Company is both a fascinating and strangely repellent look at the darker side of the entertainment industry, as well as a striking portrait of the people who control the drug culture in this country.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan

It paints a great picture of Hollywood excess, but the story itself feels incomplete, both in terms of what it intentionally and unintentionally seems to leave out.......more

I have several connections to this book, which I only discovered after reading. The hitman, Bill, was in a writing class I was teaching at a prison! A reporter friend of mine is good friends with the author, and a former BF of mine had optioned the film rights to the book! Very weird. Anyway, the bo......more