Double Solitaire, Craig Nova
Double Solitaire, Craig Nova
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Double Solitaire

Author: Craig Nova

Narrator: Phil Thron

Unabridged: 7 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/09/2021


Synopsis

Quinn Farrell is a modern-day fixer in Los Angeles. He cleans up other people’s messes—rich people’s messes—for a lot of money. He’s so good that he’s become indispensable to Hollywood moguls, and he’s managed to construct a working moral framework so that he can live with himself. That is, he did until a new neighbor moves in next door, Rose Marie, who works with terminally ill teens. Against all his survival instincts, Farrell falls in love with Rose Marie… and then her uncanny patients, who shine a spotlight into his soul. When a client steps over the line and Farrell is hired to clean up after a reprehensible crime, his carefully constructed ethical house of cards comes crashing down. Double Solitaire is the first in a series of LA-based thrillers featuring Quinn Farrell. As with all of Craig Nova’s deeply intuitive fiction, Farrell is an unforgettable living force in a setting that needs no fiction to be any weirder than it is: contemporary Hollywood.

About Craig Nova

Craig Nova is a screenwriter and an award-winning author of fourteen novels. He has received numerous accolades, including an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Harper-Saxton Prize. His short fiction has appeared in publications such as The Paris Review, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Men's Journal, and the Best American Short Story series. In 2018, a film was made based on his novel Wetware.

About Phil Thron

Phil Thron is a classically trained actor and audiobook narrator who has worked on stage, television, and behind the microphone for several decades. When not recording in his home studio, he enjoys playing tennis, watching movies, and spending time with his wife and kids. He currently resides in New Jersey.


Reviews

Goodreads review by John on June 18, 2024

This slim volume (200 pages) is written by a distant relative who never met Charles Brackett. Donald Brackett details at length the love-hate (mostly hate) relationship Wilder had with Charles Brackett. Yet over a 13-year period, the pair wrote 13 screenplays for some of the best film noir and screw......more