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Alice in La-LA Land
  

Alice in La-LA Land (Paperback)

by Robert Campbell (Author)
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Campbell's In La-La Land We Trust received rave reviews and this maze-like sequel should, too. "La-La Land' is a Los Angeles area that private-eye Whistler knows well, turf for male and female whores, drunks and druggies. When lovely Nell Twelvetrees, a stranger in La-La, asks Whistler to be her bodyguard, he gladly accepts, and not just for the fee. He is captivated by Nell and eager to protect her from her husband Roger, a millionaire TV comic. Assaults on Whistler and the woman follow, as she tries to force Roger to settle a fortune on her during divorce negotiations. Also involved in these events are Jenny, the comic's lethal daughter, and her eerie boyfriend. A crooked cop, battered hookers and other types figure in the cunning plot. No one is what he or she seems, especially the Alice of the title. She plays a startling role in this chronicle by an author who shines as a satirist but creates feeling in the reader for even the worst of his debauched characters.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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The environs of Los Angeles are as much a part of Campbell's new Whistler novel as are the many and varied street types, the over-paid celebrities and their hangers-on. Whistler is hired to protect Nell Twelvetrees, third wife of an aging TV personality with a yen for under-age hookers and a set of psychological problems straight from a textbook. Brimming with unexpected action, hidden clues, and Campbell's great storytelling, this sequel to In La-La Land We Trust (1986) is a treat of smooth prose with a jolt at the end.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Hard to put down with a Chaplin "Modern Times" ending, Feb 28 2004
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This review is from: Alice in La-LA Land (Paperback)
If you have seen Modern Times you know in the end you highly doubt that beautiful hope they have is going to play out but you still hope. Whistler, the main character, would understand that statement.

It is not a novel for the faint hearted. Campbell explores a world of sex, murder, pleasure and pain. A world of hooker of all sexes and none, TV, Transsexuals, Gender Benders, runaways, throwaways and the atmosphere around them. Set in this is a beautiful woman who isn't what she seems, a star who is what he seems, a daughter who plunged thru the looking glass from Alanta to La-La land. It takes a while but you'll figure out who the Red Queen is, who Alice actually is, who Chessie is, the rabbit and the rest.

Hardbitten, hard boiled and with that hope no matter how lost it is at the end. Not for the faint hearted, not for those who like pink colored glasses. A passing knowledge of Thru the looking glass and Alice in wonderland helps.

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