FAMOUS
AUTHORS BOOK REVIEW:
HAROLD ROBBINS
"Robbins
grabs the reader and doesn't let go."
--Publishers
Weekly
"Robbins's dialogue
is moving... his people have the warmth of life."
--The
New York Times |
The best selling popular novelist
of all time!
"He was certainly my big inspiration. Really
successful writers give their readers a world they know intimately, and
Harold certainly knows his world. From his luxurious yachts in the south
of France to his lavish jet-set parties, Harold was king. He was larger
than life and a real charmer. I will miss him and his ferocious talent.
But his books will go on entertaining forever."
--Jackie
Collins
"Grabs you hard from page one and never
lets go! Over the past fifty years, Harold Robbins has shown two generations
of readers and writers 'how it's done.' With The Predators, he's ready
to show a third."
--Lincoln
Child, coauthor of Reliquary
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The
Secret
Published posthumously, The
Secret is Robbins' sequel to The Predators (1998), which told the story
of Jerome Cooper's rise to power after the Mafia kills his family. Jerome's
story is continued along with that of his son, Len. Jerome is trying to
raise the boy while keeping his affiliations with organized crime a secret.
Len grows up learning that people are merely tools to achieve gratification
and power. He becomes a lawyer, intending on making his own way in the
world but gradually enters more and more of his father's world. |
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The
Predators
Nothing new or surprising in this
posthumously published novel by a grand master of sexy pop fiction.
Combining in one novel the
finest attributes of "A Stone for Danny Fisher" and "The Carpetbaggers",
Robbins' new novel takes readers on a wild odyssey through the gaudy and
reckless life of Jerry Cooper: His struggles to survive in depression-era
New York; his years in Europe during World War II; his friends and lovers;
his life in organized crime; and his entrance into the world of high-powered
international business. Explicit sex and language. |
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The
Raiders : A Novel
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Jonas Cord Jr., whose
tumultuous relationship with his father ended lovelessly in The Carpetbaggers,
by the 1950s has become the Jonas Cord -- rich and powerful. Though he
has an 18-year old daughter, Jonas vows to tell his son (should he ever
happen to have one) that he loves him. |
Surprise! Enter his bastard
boy, whose mother, elegant wife of a Cuban statesman, Jonas had deflowered
and then spurned when she was an ingenue. Jonas Enrique Raul Cordy Batista
-- Bart for short -- is already a brilliant WW II vet-Harvard- grad-lawyer-polyglot-blond-hunk
when he meets Dad, who is determined to add heir and businessman to Junior's
list of credits. Bart begins to dip his toe into Jonas's dealings, and
before you know it he's up to his neck in Mafia-entangled hotel casino
deals, entertainment industry high jinks, and messy family politics. Bart
discovers that, like his father, he has a taste for sex, money, power,
and conflict. |
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Goodbye,
Janette
Once again, Robbins is in top
form ! Not only does he grab his readers with his forthright, no-hold-barred
prose, but he also know the true meaning of the word «scandalous».
Goodbye Janette has everything
: sex, greed, love, revenge... |
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Never
Love a Stranger
"Never Love A Stranger" is a
wonderful yarn which contains all the ingredients for a mass market winner.
As Robbins' first novel,
( first published in 1947 can you believe) it is far less explicit than
his later work but this is not a disappointment. The characters are drawn
vividly and their world and lives ring true. |
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The
Carpetbaggers
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The
Carpetbaggers made Robbins' name a household word in the early sixties,
especially after it was made into a movie starring George Peppard. |
As the bestselling popular novelist
of all time, Robbins has created a legend that goes beyond the blockbuster,
capturing a world of fantasy that most can only dream about. |
The
Piranhas
The sex and cocaine
driven, power-hungry plot!
From
sensational New York Times bestselling author Harold Robbins comes his
toughest and most compelling novel in years -- a dazzling exploration of
cold ambition and unrestrained lust. From the ruthless dealings of
global drug lords to the corporate savagery of Wall Street's
hustlers, The Piranhas are those hungry, vicious, men & women whose
greed is all consuming --and whose power is deadly. |
The
Stallion
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In
this breathtaking, long-awaited sequel, the struggle continues in all its
naked fury. |
The fateful link between
Angelo Perino and the Hardeman family, which first enthralled readers 25
years ago in The Betsy, continues, as one of the best-loved storytellers
of our time spins a new saga of dogged ambition and passion in the auto
industry. |
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Memories
of Another Day
A delicious novel covering the
life of a man from a poor family of farmers, from his teenager years as
a coal miner to his death as one of the most powerful union leaders in
the USA. The story of this man, Daniel Boone Huggins, is presented as his
youngest son goes after his birth land and gets in touch with his father's
origins, seeking to understand his father's ways in life. As usual with
Robbins' books, real life characters get mixed in the story (Jimmy Hoffa
is one of them), helping to improve the interest in the narration. |
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The
Betsy - A
saga of violent ambition and passion in the auto industry.
The Betsy, was made into a popular
movie with an impressive cast: Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee
Jones, Katharine Ross, and Jane Alexander. The book is about the ruthless
competition between the Hardeman family, owners of Bethlehem Motors, and
the studly race-car driver Angelo Perino. Hardeman senior welcomed Perino
into the family business, but his son and grandson resented Perino and
drove him out, beating him up badly in the process. |
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Tycoon
: A Novel
The story follows the ascent
of Jack Lear, son of a Jewish salvage collector from California, who marries
into a blue-blooded Boston family and is soon on his way to wealth, fame,
and fortune, having gotten into radio and network television at the right
time. Through World War II, a couple of marriages, business upheavals,
and problems with his dysfunctional children, Lear sleeps his way around
the world with what must be hundreds of women who magically cannot resist
his frequently touted overendowed physicality. Robbins uses every sexual
encounter imaginable to describe Jack Lear's life, and soon the story of
his business success becomes merely a backdrop to his continuing escapades. |
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Stiletto
The classic tale
of crime, money and power is now available in hardcover for the first time.
Caesar Cardinal is a young
Italian aristocrat who owes his lush lifestyle to the favors of a Mafia
overlord. In order to keep those favors, Cardinal has to kill four men
awaiting trail in a sensational case against organized crime. And once
he has begun to savor the encompassing rush of killing, nobody is likely
to stop him from knowing it again. |
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