Shooters

By Terrill Lee Lankford

Book Overview

L.A. fashion photographer Nick Gardner has a secret: another identity, buried for more than a decade. Taking readers from the shores of Malibu to the pages of Vogue, Shooters reveals the naked truth... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312862725
• ISBN13: 9780312862725
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Top-notch thriller from a talented, underrated writer

Nick Gardner is a fashion photographer with a hidden past. Living the high life in Malibu, he takes a model home one night and finds her dead in the morning. The police, naturally, believe that he did it. Short and sweet, Shooters is a fast and furious ride through a not-so glitzy L.A. Lankford is a very talented, underrated writer.

Unjustly Neglected--One of the Best Thrillers of the 90s

Remember Faye Dunaway in "The Eyes of Laura Mars"? In Shooters, Nick Gardner's the same kind of fashion photographer, producing cool, edgy, erotic work that's steeped in violence and threat.Arrogant, talented, promiscuous, Nick is the kind of guy who'd "rather have sex with a complete stranger than kiss a friend with meaning." He's at the top of his game, pulling in big bucks from advertisers, never going out with the same woman two nights in a row, showing off on the road in his black Lamborghini. Then the violence in his work turns real, plucking him out of his lush but empty lifestyle.The nightmare starts at a party when he ditches the woman he came with and picks up Candice, a fantasy-gorgeous blond. Something about Candice warns him to stay away, but he's intoxicated by her technicolor charms and ignores his intuition. After a drug- swamped night of ominously kinky sex, Candice ends up dead in his dumpster.Her death raises the specter of Nick's ugly past as a pornographer, convincing the police even more of his guilt. Nick of course sets off to find out who set him up and why, but the search leads to an amazing and unexpected climax.Violent, gritty, cynical, and provocative, Shooters takes you on a wild ride through seamy, narcissistic LA where the threatening pall of smoke from fires in the hills hangs over everything.

SIMPLY ENTERTAINING!

The only reason why I read this book is b/c i read Angry Moon first and I was impressed by that and this kept me awake 4-sure. I'm awaiting another thriller by Lankford but I haven't heard word if another one is coming soon. Shooters is about an ex-porno cameraman that changes his lifestyle and takes pics for magazines and of models. But then his life turns for the worst when he's framed and forced back into his formal life to clear his name. The ending really appealed to me and I liked it b/c it was different than most typical endings. Terrill Lankford really changed concepts and issues in this one compared to Angry Moon (haha- this one's a lil' bit more realistic) but they're both well-written. I don't understand why anyone wouldn't like this book. Well, I can't judge for them so I'll let them have their own opinion but I hope I can convince other readers to cop this one. ~Special K

straight shooting dialogue

this was a great, easy read. i am a big fan of murder/mystery books, but find that many of them are just to complicated to follow. characters get jumbled up and you spend half your time sayng ok now who's this guy again and what's he got to do with the story. Shooters is a fast paced, gritty novel with a seemingly unfeeling main character born without a heart. However, Lankford has created a multi-dimensional leading man that is not often found in this genre. this is perfect summer beach reading, when all you're looking for is a few hours of enjoyable reading. I'm looking forward to more from this new author.

successor to james ellroy

"shooters" is a very good, hyperbolic novel about the horror of l.a. and the "industry". the overall ambience is like that of a contemporary james ellroy and (maybe) a "straight" dennis cooper, plus the superb nik cohn. if the forthcoming film "boogie nights" delivers on its promise, this novel should have an intersted audience