Product Details
Touchstone, June 2006
Trade Paperback, 208 pages
ISBN-10: 0743272374
ISBN-13: 9780743272377
Description
The astonishingly explicit, behind-the-scenes novel from a music industry insider -- the real story behind the sex, drugs, and payoffs. . . .
An ambitious music manager who knows his way around the scene, Dark has discovered an unknown singer who isn't going to stay unknown for long: With a little grooming in and out of the studio, Brian Barnes is destined to become the next R&B superstar. Dark makes a deal with Sony that shoots Brian's first single -- a funked-up remix of a Marvin Gaye cover -- to the top of the charts. On a national tour designed to keep the momentum going, the two indulge in their own sexual Olympics in every city from New York to L.A. But along the way, Dark sees Brian fall victim to the Fever, that unique combination of ego, sex addiction, and self-destruction. And when Brian's clouded mind begins to mistrust the very man who brought him to the top -- Dark -- he walks a razor-thin line between the ecstatic heights and dangerous depths of fame.
"Exciting to the last page."
-- Booklist
Washington Post, October 24, 2009
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Honolulu Advertiser, October 24, 2009
...and video games. Take heart, slackers! But of course the bald-as-a-button Hornby, unassuming in his jeans, T-shirt and dark blazer, is being a bit humble about all this success. After all, three of his books have been turned into movies. ...
Herald Sun, October 15, 2009
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Metroactive, October 13, 2009
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Abu Dhabi National, September 25, 2009
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Guardian Unlimited, September 19, 2009
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Sun2Surf, September 16, 2009
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AFP via Yahoo!, September 10, 2009
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Book Reporter, August 29, 2009
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Trinidad Guardian, August 15, 2009
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Blogger News Network, August 13, 2009
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Knox News Sentinel, August 4, 2009
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Lancashire Evening Post, August 3, 2009
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Lancashire Evening Post, July 11, 2009
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MySanAntonio, July 10, 2009
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Huffington Post, June 22, 2009
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The Scotsman, June 5, 2009
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Hudson Valley Press, June 3, 2009
...condition in this country. A more dangerous myth that reflects an exaggeration is 'teething sometimes causes a high fever in infants.' According to Dr. Adesman, 'Although teething may occasionally be associated with a low fever, it should ...
Sunday Tribune Ireland, June 1, 2009
...I seem to be obsessed with people living in the ruins of formerly great civilisations' 'It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.' This ...
Moorpark Acorn, May 21, 2009
...rare condition in America. A more dangerous myth that reflects an exaggeration is 'teething sometimes causes a high fever in infants.' 'Although teething may occasionally be associated with a low fever, it should never be considered the ...
Northlake News & Valley View, May 20, 2009
...condition in this country. A more dangerous myth that reflects an exaggeration is 'teething sometimes causes a high fever in infants.' According to Dr. Adesman, 'Although teething may occasionally be associated with a low fever, it should ...
Washington Post, May 12, 2009
...and a gutsy friend named Emily ride the 6 train past the deserted station: The lefthand windows were dark and unassuming, but the windows on his right side gave out onto a glittering skylit tomb. Vaults of red and green and coppercolored ...
Library Journal, May 9, 2009
...Ira. Singer. Houghton. 2009. c.336p. ISBN 978-0-15-101413-2. $24. F Shers latest is a tale of obsession, insanity, dark humor, and nostalgia. It is also a classic road story, with two men sharing a car across the Deep South. Charles, a ...
Poten & Partners, May 3, 2009
...four. And this guy was cheerful. He had a can-do attitude. I am sure he has had his dark days and still does. But he takes the view - and so do I - that a completely crap thing has happened, but you have got to crack on'. When ...
Guardian Unlimited, May 2, 2009
...four. And this guy was cheerful. He had a can-do attitude. I am sure he has had his dark days and still does. But he takes the view - and so do I - that a completely crap thing has happened, but you have got to crack on'. When ...
Guardian Unlimited, May 2, 2009
...four. And this guy was cheerful. He had a can-do attitude. I am sure he has had his dark days and still does. But he takes the view - and so do I - that a completely crap thing has happened, but you have got to crack on'. When ...
Examiner.com, May 2, 2009
...harm an insect can inflict by bite or sting, but from the diseases they carry. Mosquitoes carrying yellow fever can inflict far more damage on an army than a hive full of angry bees. From there, Lockwood moves on to conspiracy theory. Rife ...
PublishersWeekly.com, April 28, 2009
...Furst will want to take a look. (June) Patterson illustrates how deceiving initial impressions can be in her dark debut, a collection of 13 interconnected stories. At first glance, the characters seem to be blessed, living in tony Newport ...
Washington Post, April 21, 2009
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Irish Independent, April 3, 2009
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Playbill, March 15, 2009
...Street and the City Center Encores! productions of A Connecticut Yankee, Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, Lady in the Dark and Allegro. Ebersole was also seen Off-Broadway in Talking Heads and in the recent City Center Encores! production of ...
The Independent, March 12, 2009
...as it fractures and the pain of an 19th-century mother as she loses child after child to consumption, fever and 'shock'. Its first chapter introduces Mary and her sister: 'Two young women, one dead, one alive. The living one holding the dead ...
South County Independent, March 12, 2009
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Washington Post, March 11, 2009
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Shanghai Daily, March 8, 2009
...lands in a haystack. He got the jones for exploring, which, back then, you could catch like a fever, while stationed with the Royal Artillery in Ceylon. An officer had given him a note turned up by a local, which, in the life of Fawcett, ...
Book Reporter, March 6, 2009
...unexplored regions of the Amazon jungle? Was it mere malaria, with its sweats and hallucinations? Or simple yellow fever, with its bone-breaking chills and nausea? Was it one of the many species of snake, such as the venomous coral or the ...
Times of Acadiana, March 3, 2009
...understanding most boys his age do not, is only one of a complex cast of characters in this dark, creative affair. There?s the gravedigger whose face is devoid of a nose, and whose history seeps out slowly to the reader. There?s Buddy Bolden ...
Book Reporter, February 27, 2009
...making Bennett a part of his twisted scenario that, if he?s successful, will give them both a dark place in history. Patterson and Ledwidge have created a winning series here. The secondary domestic plot --- an influenza strain running ...
Lancashire Evening Post, February 12, 2009
...at Cambridge and the many beautiful young women. The final irony for Byron was his sordid death from fever in a swamp in Missolonghi in Greece where he had joined the cause for national independence. The man famously labelled 'mad, bad and ...
Dogmatika, January 26, 2009
...Keeps the latrine and the eating area separate at all times. Plays in the fourth. She keeps cabin fever at bay with a discipline of solitary capers. Optimum drive. Shooting craps. She survives the 'fat hands' of her keepers but shudders at ...
Helena Independent, January 22, 2009
...the war can be an abstract idea for some, but Ford puts a heartbreakingly human face on that dark chapter of American history. Ford tells the story through the eyes of Henry Lee, a Chinese-American boy coming of age in Seattles Chinatown ...
PublishersWeekly.com, January 12, 2009
...firelight/ Late by the firelight/ Late by the firelight/ Smart Abe Lincoln read late by the firelight/ Many dark nights ago. McClintock brings in the storytelling magic: she shows costumed children on one side of a curtain in a school ...
State Journal-Register, December 30, 2008
...quick look back at the events local teens believe helped define this year. Entertainment/pop culture ?TWILIGHT? MANIA ?Twilight? fever hit Springfield by storm this year after the summer release of the popular series? fourth and final book, ...
Sowetan, December 23, 2008
...the movie Pirates of the Caribbean, with Jack Sparrow, which inspired the cover. The inking starts with rugby fever which saw The Boks reclaiming their dominance and bringing back the Rugby World Cup (which is the only good news SA had in ...
Aint It Cool News, December 17, 2008
...a month and doesn't feel the need to reread previous FC issues) it's just a jumbled fever dream. I don't even want to think about the new reader who hears the hype and buys issue #5 on a whim to see what it's all about ...
