If you liked Sunset Boulevard, you’ll love SUICIDE RIDE, a
thoroughly modern update of this age-old Hollywood noir tale of love, money,
ambition, sex, and power—with a wicked twist! SUICIDE RIDE is Sunset
Boulevard revisited, revamped, and on steroids!
“SUICIDE RIDE is a harrowing contemporary 21st-century tale set in
Perdition that sings of Paradise Lost, Regained, and Lost Again, told in
rapturous music that soars to the rafters and bounces off the beams of
heaven. The writing is technically virtuous, worthy, in its brooding way,
of Billy Wilder at his black-and-white best.”
Are you straight? Are you sure? What would
you do if you were down-and-out and desperate? What would you do—how far
would you go—for FAME?
Find out just how far, and just how low, Johnny Gellis is willing to go in
SUICIDE RIDE: THE PLATINUM MAN (Book One of the SUICIDE RIDE series).
"E. Llewellyn ... does for Gay literature what Kubrick did for
cinema—redefines and elevates, and constantly undercuts your expectations of the
genre, making believers out of blowhards. Unfettered, unflinching, bristling
with emotion, she rocks your world." ~ Mark Peter Krasselt, author of
Kubrick: Lessons of a Sentient
You hitch your lift with this man
You'll have your blood on your hand …
AN OLDER MAN WITH NO FUTURE, AND NOTHING TO LIVE FOR …
Norman Dimond is the Silver Man, an over-the-hill LA-based rock 'n roll
record producer who has seen better days. A set-for-life bisexual with a hard
spot for younger men, he squanders his nights hustling cash-strapped gay-for-pay
desperadoes who swagger into his den on the Sunset Strip, looking for one-off
love in all the right places. Lonely and at loose ends, he longs for a worthy
dance partner, but despairs of finding him … Until one night, when he least
expects it, in waltzes …
A YOUNGER MAN WITH A PAST, AND A DEATH WISH …
Johnny Gellis is the Platinum Man, a beautiful straight wreck who needs
fixing—and who wants exactly what Norman Dimond has to give: a platform, a
stage. But does he want it badly enough? Desperate to outrun his demons, he's
driving himself crazy, and is heading straight for the edge. Can Norman save
him, before it's too late?
TWO LIVES ABOUT TO COLLIDE IN A SUICIDE RIDE …
When Norman meets Johnny, their heavy-metal fenders bend, sending the
male-on-male sparks flying. Johnny's number-one-with-a-bullet hit "Suicide Ride"
blows Norman's mind, while his number-99-with-an-anchor tattoo pricks up more
than just his ears. And though this hell-bent, cliff-hanging headbanger is the
man-boy of his dreams, keeping him on course turns out to be a waking nightmare.
Can Norman do it? Can he put him on top while stopping him from breaking down
and destroying them both? The deeper Dimond digs, the darker it gets; and as the
secrets and suspense multiply, so, too, do the lies. Johnny is hiding something,
that much Norman is sure of; and what's worse, he begins to feel the tug of even
darker and ever more violent undertows—sinister, malevolent drags that Gellis
himself cannot spin-rinse away.
SUICIDE RIDE is at once a profound work of literature and a neo-noir
Hollywood bromance for the ages. Gay fiction as well as literary fiction, it's
one fast-paced rock 'n roll romance novel you won't be able to put down, a
gritty, realistic, eye-poppingly pimped-out Ride, flush with all the car parts
for a runaway success. Switching genres like lanes, SUICIDE RIDE: THE PLATINUM
MAN is a total head spin—an ebullient, erudite, yet racy exploration of the
ancient themes that obsess us, by way of the pop culture freeway.
Whether you’re male or female, gay or straight—if you get off on bisexual
sex stories about masculine gay men seeking gay sex with straight men; if
character-driven literary fiction makes you drool; if you're a bad-ass rocking
roller looking to holler; if all you dream about is getting away for awhile—then
this book is your ticket to paradise.
Download him onto your Kindle or other device, and for less than the price
of a cheap trick, Johnny Gellis will roll right into your Car-port. Pick him up
now—and you'll live to tell the tale …
But buyer beware: Better buckle up … You're in for one hell of a HARD
Ride!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
E. LLEWELLYN is an American-born expatriate writer living in London and Berlin, and is the author of the Hollywood neo-noir series SUICIDE RIDE, including THE PLATINUM MAN and the forthcoming sequels THE FIX and THE HIT.