Bøker av Fred Andersen

This is Hollywood, 1948. You are a beautiful young actress. He is a ruthless and powerful film producer. He can make you a star or send you back to the sticks, and you have something he wants, right now. What are you willing to do? How much of yourself are you willing to give?"A gripping read that challenges traditional genre definitions with a multifaceted story that's hard to put down. Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review..A Broadway Baby, a dark-eyed, seemingly innocent beauty. A refugee from destroyed Berlin, a hardened blonde angel. They both arrive in Hollywood just after World War II. They both have brains and ambition. One will become a star but sacrifice everything she loves; the other will become the victim of a sexual predator too powerful to be denied-or prosecuted." . . . a hard look behind the curtains of glittering 1948 Hollywood. It is a story of two independent, strong-willed and ambitious young women, Priscilla (aka Pamela Carr) from South Dakota and Anna from wartime Germany. As they try to succeed in this special world, men like studio mogul Morton Blackwell have the power to make or break them-personally and professionally. Andersen captures the unique ambiance of the time with a creative writing style that flows effortlessly." Maria Victoria Beltran Readers' Favorite Reviews

Lily Torrence is a Hollywood murder mystery set among people who helped create the jaded, doomed characters of the postwar movies we call film noir. Was it the tension, the suspicion, and the exploitation of war that led to these dark and devious movies? Noir -and the pulp fiction it sprang from-gloried in the cynical exploitation of sex and ambition, the enshrinement of greed and corruption, and ruefully pondered the demise of brutal thugs, sniggering deviants and hypocritical socialites.This particular story is set in a richly-detailed wartime Los Angeles. The narrative and dialogue play off of classic hard-boiled style, but plumb the fears and aspirations of today's reader. Aspiring screenwriter Lyman Wilbur becomes a reluctant alibi in what seems to be a banal and tawdry love triangle among Hollywood aristocrats. Max Beckerman is a young director on the rise until he is accused of killing powerful agent Marty Nuco, who was having an affair with Max's wife. Because Nuco is the key figure in a prostitution and blackmail ring, his death creates both problems and opportunities for his criminal associates.But there is another triangle involving Max and Nuco with Deborah Boynton, one of Hollywood's most glamorous and coldly calculating stars. These three share a despicable secret from their early, hungry days. The lacquered nail that stirs this cocktail is Lily Torrence, a beautiful young dancer who is Deborah's protégée and lover, but also a former call girl for Nuco. Having escaped from sexual slavery, she is intent on creating a new life, and rubbing out all traces of her past. Lyman has to try, for both selfish and noble reasons, to untangle the sordid threads that bind these people. This becomes dangerous for Lyman when all the parties-Max, Deborah, Lily, the police, and Nuco's henchmen-try to control what the truth will be. The story ends in a brutal and tragic climax.And then life goes on.

A GRAPHIC NOVEL WITH NO PICTURESGreat comic strips sometimes come from earnest but neurotic philosophers (Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts) or seething monsters (Al Capp, L'il Abner). But the creators are seldom seen or talked about by their readers. Read it, chuckle, don't, move on to the next Skittle in your day. "The Dead Cartoonist" is fabulously successful but emotionally disturbed comic strip creator Milton Morey. Or maybe it's Nate Thurringer, whose quirky strip barely rates a blip in the comics world.By a stroke of chance, Nate is present when Morey's family finds out he has been kidnapped. Nate, accompanied by Morey's Romanian lover, Crina Vraca, sets off on a rescue mission from the suburbs of America to the French Riviera, across Spain and finally to Hollywood. The story winds through madness, a fake kidnapping, extortion, family drama, love on the run, a real kidnapping, cynical manipulation, and heartfelt longing. Oh, and comedy bits on almost every page, and enough comics memes and references to fill a Comic-Con roundtable. This is a graphic novel with no pictures. Readers are free to create the images described in the text in whatever style they like.". . . strong in comics history and culture; a social commentary and a story of loyalty and intrigue that will delight a wide audience." Diane DonovanFRED ANDERSENIS the author of comic, mystery and suspense novels and stories which all have touches of humor, but nothing to do with comics.You can find them all at fxandersen.com, on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Fred-Andersen/e/B07XJL38QK . . .or at your favorite online bookstore.Fred has also written a number of short stories that have appeared in magazines and websites including Thriller, Close to the Bone, and Yellow Mama.You can check out a humorous short story here about the dangers of online chat rooms:https://imitationfruit.com/issue_6/writers_chat_room/writers_chat.html

When are you safe? Who do you trust? When is it right to do wrong? These questions drive the characters in "Line in the Sand." Desperate choices will be made in the first few minutes of the story, and plot twists will come down to the last few pages. Packed in between are action, psychological suspense, admirable courage, and undeniable terror. Killers will be killed; authorities will be lied to; young people in their first act of adulthood will go against everything they've ever learned or wanted. In the end, life and hope are chosen over fear and death; a new family is formed; a new future is imagined. The story works both sides of the southwestern U.S. border and revolves around a vendetta by a drug cartel against two refugee boys, who wind up under the hastily improvised protection of a Phoenix elementary school teacher and janitor. This unlikely band defeats hired killers but then must hide their victory even from the police out of fear of retribution from the seemingly omnipotent and utterly evil cartel. At the same time, we are also seeing the events from the side of the narcos, who, it turns out, have their own fears and failings.