The Return Of The Player

Description

'Griffin Mill was broke, he was down to his last six million dollars.' After getting away with murder, Griffin has risen up the ranks of the studio - but not to the top. Now he wants out of a Hollywood that has changed beyond recognition. With business having peaked and box office takings down, Griffin is convinced that Hollywood is crumbling because his world is in turmoil. In the midst of an unsustainably expensive lifestyle and a broken marriage, Griffin makes one last desperate plan: to quit the studio and convince Phil Ginsberg, an almost billionaire, to become his partner. But as his plan threatens to collapse, Griffin realises that he may have to kill once more in order to save himself.

First published 2006.

Reviews

"'A thoroughly up-to-date fable that maybe Kafka would have written if he'd been employed by MGM.' Bret Easton Ellis 'One of the most wounding and satirical of all Hollywood exposes' LA Times"

Author description

Michael Tolkin is the author of The Player, Among the Dead and Under Radar. He wrote the screenplay for the Robert Altman film The Player and wrote and directed The Rapture and The New Age.