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Fiction. Mystery. Moses Wine thought he had put his interest in politics far behind him when he became a Los Angeles-based private detective. Sure, he'd once been an activist, but that had been during the Sixties. A lifetime ago...or so it seemed, before Lila Shea showed up on his doorstep. Lila was a woman who could have been the love of his life...had they remained together after their last night of passion in 1967. Nevertheless, she's back, and with a job for him; locate the chairman of show more the Free Amerika Party and convince him to end the smear campaign he's waged against her employer, Senator Miles Hawthorne, who's running for the presidency. But when Lila later turns up dead, politics become the last thing on Moses' mind... show lessTags
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Entertaining, but no "landmark in its field" contra a real master, Ross Macdonald. The escapes were too glib, and the criminal plot too corny. To win a large gambling pot, someone plots to blow up a freeway to scuttle presidential primary campaign.
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Roger L. Simon made his living writing novels and screenplays before co-founding the pioneering blog-aggregation and news and opinion website PJ Media (formerly Pajamas Media) in 2005. He is known for his prize-winning Moses Wine detective novels and for his screenplays: The Big Fix (with Richard Dreyfuss), Bustin' Loose (with Richard Pryor), show more Scenes from a Mall (with Bette Midler and Woody Allen), and Enemies, a Love Story, for which Simon was nominated for an Academy Award. Simon also directed the independent feature Prague Duet. He has taught screenwriting at the Sundance Institute and the American Film Institute and has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Commentary, and the New fork Post. He has also appeared as a political commentator on numerous talk radio and television shows. Simon is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Yale School of Drama. show less
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- The Big Fix
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- The Big Fix
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- 1973
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- Moses Wine
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- The Big Fix (1978)
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