From Publishers Weekly
Canadian author Deverell's fourth U.S. suspense novel is a fast-paced, wickedly funny send-up of a rock music industry incestuously bedded down with corporate America. Oliver Gulliver, lawyer, widower and mayor of tiny Foolsgold, Calif., is suffering from midlife crisis, lustful fantasies and empty-nest syndrome. After his 18-year-old daughter, Elora, a college dropout, falls rapturously in love with alcoholic rock star C. C. Gilley, Gulliver finds himself defending the wild-man guitarist in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit involving a plagiarized song. When small-town hotshot Gulliver takes on the moguls of L.A.'s recording industry, the stakes escalate, and arson, murder and a sting gone haywire keep up the beat. Reeling off witty turns of phrase and uncanny plot twists, Deverell offers wonderfully sardonic takes on the worlds of music, law, Hollywood, Southern California and fatherhood--just for starters.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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From Library Journal
Plagiarism in the rock music industry is the subject of attorney-and-screenwriter Deverell's fourth comic suspense novel. The book is already a best seller in mass-market paperback in the author's native Canada, and it resembles Elmore Leonard's Bandits in complexity of plot and slickness of dialog. Oliver Gulliver is a small town lawyer in northern California with a minor midlife crisis and a major family problem--Gilley, his future son-in-law, is a scruffy, alcoholic rock star whose career is on the skids. Our hero initiates Gilley's lawsuit against a major record company when his love ballad for Gilley's teenage daughter is stolen and subsequently hits the top 40 with suggestive new lyrics. Gulliver duels and deals with Tinseltown's music executives in a highly publicized legal wrangle that ends in murder. The book is rich in background detail on the industry. Recommended for larger collections of mystery/popular fiction.
- Joyce Smothers, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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