Eddy Lovell is a rich man's son turned heavy hitter for the mob. Vicki Sigel is a wanna-be Hollywood actress who knows all about players and how to play them for fools. But when two thugs take her captive, it will join her fate with Eddy's. Soon Eddy and Vicki are thrust into a violent world of killers, crooks, and dealers making the most dangerous plays of all, against each other.
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What a great 1950s B movie this thriller by Clay Reynolds would have made! Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, or Sterling Hayden could have played Eddy Lovell to perfection: a smarter-than-average muscleman who drifts into crime almost by accident. As Eddy's employer, a minor league Dallas mobster named Moria Mendle who sells sex and mobile homes, Sam Jaffe would be a top choice. And Elizabeth Scott was born to be Vicki Sigel, a gutsy actress who gets to play the role of her life when kidnappers mistake her for Eddy's daughter. But Reynolds's edgy, stripped-down prose works just fine today; it keeps a complicated story about stolen government CD-ROMs and Eddy's extremely nasty siblings moving like a burning 16-wheeler on a Texas highway. Other books by Reynolds available in paperback include Franklin's Crossing and Rage.
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From Library Journal
This drive-in movie of a book is worthy of a review by Joe Bob Briggs: "Dozens of dead bodies, twelve breasts, kung-fu co-eds: Joe Bob says check it out." Reynolds (Franklin's Crossing, Dutton, 1993) has constructed a nonstop narrative orgy of violence and senseless crime that may appeal to someone, but the question is whom. Eddy Lovell, a failed football player, gets involved with the Texas underworld, and the far-fetched plot that ensues involves loan-sharks, pimps, sophisticated computer programs that can find out any information about anyone in the world, Hollywood hopefuls, kidnapping, and all that gratuitous, graphic violence. Promotional hype comparing Reynolds to Elmore Leonard is ludicrous: where Leonard is deft and spare, Reynolds is obvious and belabored. Not recommended.?David Dodd, Univ. of Colorado at Colorado Springs
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Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Format:Hardcover
Where the heck did Clay Reynolds come from? This is one wild high-octane rush of Texas black comedy, betrayal and bloodshed. Tarrantino meets McMurtry. They'll never cram all this headlong action into a feature-length movie, and if they did it would fry you brainless. Read the book.
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A fine plot,interesting,true to life characters and well paced make Players a super crime read.It is not yet up to the better Lawrence Block's or Elmore Leonard's,but I would rate it an 8 if not for the highly distracting use of colons in the punctuation.There are hundreds and hundreds of them.
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Format:Hardcover
1)This book is so far the only book that all the readers (including me) who tributed comments to the wonderful and so USER-FRIENDLY cool AMAZON.COM that from top to end, there is only an unique 10 or 10+ ratings. But why Amazon.com never included this wonderfully written book in their best recommanded 50 books? If all the readers of Amazon.com uncontroversially and wholeheartedly said this book is GREAT and only gave a 10~10+, it IS great, OK?! And you don't get any special credit by just writing a shallow negative review.
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Best book I have read in years.
Players has got be one of the best books written in years. Reynolds ability to keep you thinking shines in this work. The plot is so well done and involved. Read more
Published on Jan 21 1998
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This is absolutely marvelous and fantastic! (Rating: 11)
I was recommended thru the e-mail for a chosen group to read this book. My God, this is the most wonderful book I've ever read, but I chewed it very slowly, because I didn't want... Read more
Published on Sep 11 1997
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tightly written, informed story of crime in Texas
With PLAYERS, Reynolds once again demonstrates his technical competence and his overall mastery at narrating a complex tale. PLAYERS is a real page-turner. Read more
Published on Aug 20 1997
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A thinking man's or woman's supense thriller.
Clay Reynolds' first foray into suspense fiction is a success by any standards, but particularly when judged by (gasp!) literary ones. Read more
Published on Aug 17 1997
5.0 out of 5 stars
The players are your worst nightmare about people
Reynolds has managed to scrape the Texas underworld and come up with an odd assortment of believable dirtbags who's only redeaming value is that they manage to do one another harm... Read more
Published on Aug 15 1997
5.0 out of 5 stars
A tour-de-force of in-your-face action, character, and plot
It's great when you read great reviews by other amazon.com readers. Then read the book; and agree that fellow readers have it right. Read more
Published on Aug 12 1997 by archer
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dark humor, nothing is sacred, not crime and not Texas!
If you're looking for sentiment then forget this book--it's peopled with the strangest assortment of people since Charles Dickens' London eccentrics. Read more
Published on Aug 4 1997
5.0 out of 5 stars
fascinating, original, full of the unexpected
Players is much more than a simple crime novel. The plot provides plenty of tantalizing twists, no doubt, the action is definitely thrilling, and the events suspenseful. Read more
Published on July 30 1997
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best crime fiction novel published this year
Reynolds has published in other genres and his command of the art of writing fiction makes his first crime novel competitive with the best works of the best crime novelists. Read more
Published on July 20 1997
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Summer fun!!
Once I started reading this book, I couldn't put
put it down. The action was fast, the characters
were well-defined, but their motivations and... Read more
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Published on Jun 21 1997
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