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In Hollywood, many people would kill for a movie deal, and in Revision of Justice--the scathing follow-up to John Morgan Wilson's Edgar Award-winning first novel--somebody does. There's a Hollywood one never gets to see on Oscar night, the Hollywood of wannabes, has-beens, and never-weres. It's this hidden Hollywood that Benjamin Justice finds when he accompanies Alexandra Templeton--the go-getting young journalist he met in Wilson's previous novel, Simple Justice--to an open house at the show more home of the well-known teacher of screenwriting Gordon Cantwell. Templeton is on assignment, but the body she finds in Cantwell's garden isn't part of her story, and Justice suspects that the death isn't natural, either. The dead man is Raymond Farr, born Reza JaFari, and as it turns out, almost anyone at the party might have wanted him dead. The quintessential Hollywood deal maker, Farr's credentials were as phony as his name, and his scruples were as nonexistent as his credits. Justice--ever the investigative journalist, however reluctant--begins to nose around, and unearths a tangled web of relationships that lead him, finally, to the killer. Along the way he also reawakens a part of himself, the part he had kept buried, or preserved in alcohol, ever since the death of his lover from AIDS seven years before. In Revision of Justice, John Morgan Wilson expands his world beyond the borders of West Hollywood to explore the tarnished detritus of Tinseltown, and his hero, Benjamin Justice, expands his world as well, as he begins to open up to the feelings he had been trying so hard to deny. From the Hardcover edition. show lessTags
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Ben Justice is back, investigating another Hollywood mystery. A beautifully flawed character, he continues to struggle with alcoholism and guilt, while trying to figure out who killed a young script writer found dead at a large Hollywood party. Wilson is adept at weaving in copious detail, sense of place, and great development of even minor characters. Love the film history , L.A. history, and I appreciated the history of the progression of AIDS treatment. Many passages made me feel like I was in the room. Highly recommended.
I read the first book of this author and really liked it and then promptly forgot all about him. While I was forgetting he was busy writing! Bless his heart. This is the second in the Benjamin Justice series. Justice is a defrocked de-Pulitzer'd journalist still trying to get his life back together. He stumbles into a party and then into a murder of a guy that no one had any use for at all. But which one of those 'no ones' killed him?
Benjamin Justice series second novel. Approximately a year after the events of Simple Justice, we find Benjamin Justice still the outsider, still struggling with his inner demons. Booze, guilt, self pity, a little depression. Alexandra Templeton, the rookie journalist, now a journalist with a name and some pull, is taping Justice for some help on an article she's writing for a LA magazine about Hollywood's business : the movie. More specifically the writing of movies. This second novel in the series is still a dark, angsty ride. But Justice finds a road to some redemption for his guilt. The plot does use the Hollywood writers paranoia, delusion and big ego nicely, you get some interesting description of life in West Hollywood and a cop show more that's a lot more than the sum of his dysfunctional parts. I liked it. Looking forward to "Justice at risk" to get here some time this month. show less
Benjamin Justice is a complicated and very flawed character, but he's also determined and relentless in his pursuits for information and the truth. The more I read, the more I like.
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- Revision of Justice
- Original publication date
- 1997
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- Benjamin Justice; Alexandra Templeton
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- Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Dedication
- In memory of Vito Russo
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