- Hardcover: 294 pages
- Publisher: St Martins Pr; First Edition edition (November 1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312083319
- ISBN-13: 978-0312083311
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 567 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,057,062 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
The eponymous bead is not an 8th-century Benedictine monk but a ruby given to anagrammatic heroine Leila Aluja by her second husband, the most powerful man in the history of Hollywood. Leila, daughter of an Iraqi-born U.S. congressman with Mafia ties, starts as a 1970s Red-hunter, turns into a movie star, then a Madonna-ish rock star, then a president-advising lobbyist-lawyer, and finally the head of a worldwide fast-food empire. Along the way she marries a Sino-Albanian spymaster; then the Hollywood agent; next a gun-lobby exec who turns serial killer, and last a Columbia University professor of Irish studies (his face is Lincolnesque with just a touch of Meyer Lansky). On this rollicking two-decade tour, Condon (Prizzi's Honor, The Final Addiction) gleefully skewers American hypocrisy, venality, stupidity and vulgarity, paying keen attention to tobacco and gun lobbies and to a GOP president who stood for a kinder and gentler America, providing it carried guns. No pious figure himself, Condon here afflicts the comfortable to hilarious effect, aptly subtitling this romp A Deadly Serious Novel. 50,000first panting; major ad/promo.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
Undercover to nab a ring of Sino-Albanian spies operating out of a Hollywood talent agency, Iraqi-American lawyer Leila Aluja falls in love with her prey, in a satire of suspense novels. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.
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Satirical, geo-political trash., Aug 23 1998
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This review is from: The Venerable Bead (Hardcover)
The Venerable Bead is a disappointment from an author of Richard Condon's stature. It is a loosely, disjointed, mishmash of a novel. Its central character, Leila Aluja, is a spy, singer/actress, fast food mogul, and PR whiz whose voracious appetite for sex outweighs her credibility. Potential readers save your money!
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