THE SHOOTING SCRIPT : A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE
Book ID/图书代码： 01240005B01470
English Summary/英文概要： Following his critically acclaimed novel The Cutting Room, Laurence Klavan returns with The Shooting Script. Establishing shot: New York City, present day. Zoom in on a run-down tenement building, somewhere west of Times Square, the home of Roy Milano, a thirtyish, divorced typesetter who lives for the movies. In fact, by pursuing the legendary uncut print of Orson Welles’s The Magnificent Ambersons, Roy has become something of a minor celebrity among the fellow misfit film fanatics he caters to in his homemade newsletter, Trivial Man. But there’s nothing trivial when Roy’s old rival Abner Cooley shows up with a check in his hand and the words “Someone is trying to kill me” on his lips.
With his mother ailing, Roy needs the money as badly as Cooley needs someone to head off a trigger-happy stalker who’s determined to put both him and his controversial new screenplay into permanent turnaround. And though Roy does his best, like many a private eye before him, he quickly finds his head turned by an enticing distraction. Not a femme fatale, but a flick.
Roy is all but powerless to resist an e-mail from a mysterious fan that lures him with the promise of an elusive treasure as fiercely sought after by the celluloid cognoscenti as the Ark of the Covenant was by Indiana Jones. It’s Jerry Lewis’ famous unreleased drama, The Day the Clown Cried. But when he arrives at a rendezvous too late to save a dying man, Roy realizes he’s stumbled into a dangerous race to possess a piece of cinema history. To catch up, he’ll have to match wits with a rogues’ gallery: a bored and bitter superstar comedian, a hot-shot producer turned drugged-out has-been, a ferocious German actor who likes to role-play off-camera, a mercurial director with a scary sense of humor, and a hard-bitten cop who’s mad about movies.
Meanwhile, Roy will be tempted by the wiles of three fetching females–and tormented by a single-minded psychopath with more faces than Lon Chaney. He’ll even go on location, pursuing and being pursued from the mansions of the Hamptons to the harbors of Maine, the boulevards of L.A. to the canals of Amsterdam. No one’s ever gone to this much trouble just to see a movie. But for Roy, the reward far outweighs the risk. And a chance to glimpse the Big Picture might just be worth coming face-to-face with the Big Sleep.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： LAURENCE KLAVAN继前一本饱受好评的小说《剪接室的故事》之后，带着新出炉的《拍摄脚本》重新回到读者中间。镜头切换到了时代广场西面的某处廉租房的公寓里，公寓的主人是Roy Milano，一位三十出头，离了婚的排字工，一心献给电影事业。事实上，因为开始寻找到奥逊•威尔斯导演的经典电影《伟大的安伯逊家族》的原始胶带，Roy竟然在一群与他有差不多境遇的不合群的电影狂热爱好者中成了个不大不小的人物了，而由他本人徒手创办的一本名为《小人物》
时事通讯也在这群人中颇受欢迎。但是当Roy的老冤家Abner Cooley手拿支票，出现在他面前时，那可就不再是什么小事了，他声称“有人要杀我”。
因为母亲重病在身，Roy急需弄到钱给她看病，就像Cooley急着要找一个人来阻止那位一心要把他和他创作的那部饱受争议的最新剧本“彻底颠覆”的嗜血杀手。虽然Roy竭尽全力，但是就像在他眼前晃动的这些私家侦探一样，他也很快被身边的那个尤物弄得神魂颠倒，不是什么美女妖精，而是一部电影。
Roy实在抵挡不住来自一位神秘崇拜者的伊美儿中的诱惑，信中所承诺的宝贝，神秘不可测，行家们个个对它垂涎三尺，那贪婪样绝不亚于《夺宝奇兵》中INDIANA JONES对的约柜窥视。这个宝贝就是Jerry Lewis那部至今尚未发行的电影《小丑的哀恸》。但是当他来到事先约好的地点于与崇拜者会面的时候，却发现那家伙已命丧黄泉，这时他开始意识到自己已陷入了一场争夺电影史中重要作品的比赛。为了不落下队伍，他不得不和一伙恶棍斗志斗勇：他们中既有无聊透顶、痛苦万分的超级喜剧明星，也有自负的制片人、喜欢在镜头背后玩角色扮演的残忍的德国演员、有着令人恐怖的幽默感的善变的导演以及坚强的警察，对电影的痴迷到了发烧友地步。
与此同时，又有三位美女开始对Roy轮番实施美人计，还有一位比有「千面人」之称的朗钱尼还会变脸的执拗的精神病也让他痛苦不堪。Roy甚至还赶去外景，从Hampton公寓到缅因州的港口到洛杉矶的林荫大道再到阿姆斯特丹的水道上，到处被人追捕，当然他也在追赶别人。没人会为了看一部电影而费那么大的劲，但是这对Roy来说，冒这样的危险显然是值得的。可以瞥一眼大手笔的电影也许值得与死神交战。
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About the Author/作者介绍： LAURENCE KLAVAN won the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original for Mrs. White, written under a pseudonym. He is also the author of The Cutting Room, the first novel featuring Roy Milano. His work for the theater includes the librettos for the Obie Award—winning musical Bed and Sofa and the acclaimed Embarrassments. He lives in New York.
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