| Dangerous Kiss Contributor(s): Collins, Jackie (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0671020951 ISBN-13: 9780671020958 Publisher: Pocket Books OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: July 2000 Annotation: She's the seductively beautiful, street-smart star of four Jackie Collins blockbusters. She's the survivor who fought for everything she has: fame and power in Hollywood and happiness in marriage. She's the strong, exciting woman who dares to take chances -- and always wins. She's Lucky Santangelo, and she's back in Jackie Collins' scintillating New York Times bestseller Driven by raw fury when a member of her family is gunned down in a random holdup, Lucky is hunting for a killer throughout glamorous Los Angeles. But her quest for revenge tests her relationship with her husband, charismatic writer and director Lennie Golden. Then, suddenly, into her life comes a man from her past -- a man with a dangerous kiss.... |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Romance - Contemporary - Fiction | Sagas |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Lucky Santangelo Novels (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 1.35" H x 4.15" W x 6.84" (0.63 lbs) 592 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - Southern California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The seductively beautiful, street-smart, and powerful Lucky Santangelo, star of four of Jackie Collins's previous international bestsellers--Chances, Lucky, Lady Boss, and Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge--returns in Dangerous Kiss. In Chances, Lucky grew up in a top crime family; in Lucky, she was married three times; in Lady Boss, she took on Hollywood and bought Panther Studios; and in Vendetta, she fought off a lifelong enemy to keep the studio, and her husband. Now, in Dangerous Kiss, when a member of her family is brutally gunned down in a random holdup, her fury knows no bounds. While she is tracking the killer, her relationship with her husband, charismatic writer and director Lennie Golden, is put to the test. Then, suddenly, into her life comes a man from her past--a man with a dangerous kiss. Dangerous Kiss is a story of raw anger, love, lust, murder, and revenge, and at its white-hot center is Lucky Santangelo, a strong, exciting woman who dares to take chances--and always wins. |
Contributor Bio(s): Collins, Jackie: - There have been many imitators, but only ever one Jackie Collins. The iconic British author has been called a "raunchy moralist" by the director Louis Malle and "Hollywood's own Marcel Proust" by Vanity Fair. With millions of her books sold in more than forty countries, and with thirty-one New York Times bestsellers to her credit, she is one of the world's top-selling novelists. From glamorous Beverly Hills bedrooms to Hollywood move studios; from glittering rock concerts in London to the yachts of Russian billionaires, Jackie Collins chronicled the scandalous lives of the rich, famous, and infamous from the inside looking out. "I write about real people in disguise," she once said. "If anything, my characters are toned down--the truth is much more bizarre!" Her first novel, The World is Full of Married Men, was published in 1968 and established Collins as an author who dared to step where no other female writers had gone before. She followed it year after year with one successful title after another, including Chances, the first installment of a sprawling nine-book saga introducing the street-smart, sexy, and dynamic Lucky Santangelo. The eighties saw Jackie hitting her stride with the seminal blockbuster, Hollywood Wives, as well as Lucky, Hollywood Husbands, and Rock Star. In recent years she kept fans entertained with Poor Little Bitch Girl, The Power Trip, and her final novel, The Santagelos, never wavering on her commitment to take her readers on a "wild ride"! Six of her novels have been adapted for film or TV and Universal Pictures has recently optioned the Santangelo series with a view to bringing Lucky to the big screen. Jackie was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) by the Queen of England in 2013 for her services to literature and charity. When accepting the honor she said to the Queen, "Not bad for a school drop-out"--a revelation capturing her belief that both passion and determination can lead to big dreams coming true. Jackie Collins lived in Beverly Hills where she had a front row seat to the lives she so accurately captured in her compulsive plotlines. She was a creative force, a trailblazer for women in fiction and in her own words "A kick-ass writer!" |