Book description
This book reveals the sinister true story of the Mafia in
Hollywood. Crammed with legends, myths, murders, madness, mayhem,
superstar tantrums, super-sexed starlets, power brokers and politics,
it is an ambitious account of Hollywood's hidden history, from the
rogue cops who took on the Mob on the streets of Los Angeles to the
stars who became stars because Mafia Godfathers said they would.
In The Dark Heart of Hollywood, seasoned crime and
entertainment writer Douglas Thompson reveals how all is masterminded
by the money-obsessed Mafia, for whom everything and everyone is
simply a commodity. The intense saga charges across America: from
Hollywood bedrooms to the Oval Office, from California's
twenty-first-century computer capital to the cocaine-connection HQs
stretching from the Sunset Strip to Marseilles, Milan, Moscow, Tokyo
and Beijing.
In this magnificent and highly compelling volume, Hollywood is
unveiled as Tinseltown without the tinsel.
Douglas Thompson has been writing from and about Hollywood for nearly
40 years. His books include
Hollywood People,
a series of superstar biographies and, most recently,
Mafialand
.
