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A Life in the Cinema is the first book from award-winning filmmaker Mick Garris. It is a collection of eight prickly tales that reach under the skin of real life and reel life to take you places you never realized you wanted to go. The title story "A Life in the Cinema" and its sequel "Starfucker", are set in the author's hometown of Hollywood and provide a yellow-jaundiced look at a world you only thought was glamorous.

Grappling with an unplanned retirement and searching for purpose, former Special Agent Mick Nassau heads to Key West for a long-overdue break and finds himself in the path of a looming hurricane — and unexpected danger. What starts as a simple visit with his best friend, Jack, takes a dark turn when Jack is found critically injured aboard his boat under suspicious circumstances.

In The Tenth Vote, set in Washington's corridors of power, diplomats, attorneys, tech tycoons, spies, oligarchs, and the press duel in an intricate plot which unfolds like a set of Russian dolls with a surprise final betrayal.

In this heart-wrenching narrative based on a true story, Martin, a young pilot, faces the most difficult challenge of his life when he suffers multiple burns in an airplane crash and consequently undergoes a physical and emotional transformation marked by the scars left on his body. His sublime experience with an angel, who guides him through his most difficult moments, leads to a radical turn of events that make Martin a hero to many people.

A mother he thought he’d lost. A father he’s never known. An enemy that wants them dead. After a rebellious youth, Chase Day did his best to turn his life around—first as a Naval officer and then as history professor at a boutique Bay Area college. That all changes when the mother he thought had been dead for thirty years begs him to help her. His heart gets ripped to shreds again when he finds her dying from a gunshot wound. In her last breath, she urges him to protect the father he’s never met.