Riding with John Wayne
“Aaron Latham’s page-turning novel, Riding with John Wayne, is at once a love story, a murder mystery, and a funny exposé of the movie business in Hollywood and on location in West Texas. And it’s populated with odd-ball characters who add spice to the mix.”
Larry L. King, author of In Search of Willie Morris
The widely acclaimed author of Code of the West and The Cowboy with the Tiffany Gun, Aaron Latham pens some of today’s most entertaining fiction. This rollicking novel follows aspiring Hollywood screenwriter Chick Goodnight—descendant of the legendary cowboy Jimmy Goodnight—as he strives to make his mark in a world that seems completely alien to his down-home sensibilities.
Chick comes to Hollywood to write the script for a film about his great-great-great-grandfather Jimmy Goodnight—a bona fide original Texan cowboy of the 1870s. A quick study, Chick is taken under the wing of the film’s director, Jamie, who finds this newcomer’s quaint mores mildly amusing if not charming. But just as Chick is becoming acclimated to the glitzy and jaded Hollywood scene, the murder of an up-and-coming actress breaks his concentration. The victim is none other than his own cousin. Now he’ll have to pull a page from his own script if he’s any chance of finding out whodunit.
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