Coldheart Canyon

by Barker, Clive

• ISBN13: 9780060182977
• ISBN10: 0060182970
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-13
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

<p>Hollywood has made a star of Todd Pickett. But time is catching up with him. He doesn't have the perfect looks he had last year. After plastic surgery goes awry, Todd needs somewhere to hide away for a few months while his scars heal.</p><p>As Todd settles into a mansion in Coldheart Canyon -- a corner of the city so secret it doesn't even appear on any map -- Tammy Lauper, the president of his fan club, comes to the City of Angels determined to solve the mystery of Todd's disappearance. Her journey will not be an easy one. The closer she gets to Todd the more of Coldheart Canyon's secrets she uncovers: the ghosts of the A-list stars who came to the Canyon for wild parties; Katya Lupi, the cold-hearted, nowforgotten star for whom the Canyon was named, who is alive and exquisite after a hundred years; and, finally, the door in the bowels of Katya's dream palace that reputedly open up to another world, the Devil's Country. No one who has ever ventured to this dark, barbaric corner of hell has returned without their souls shadowed by what they'd seen and done.</p><p>Mingling an insider's view of modern Hollywood with a wild streak of visionary fantasy, <i>Coldheart Canyon</i> is a book without parallel: an irresistible and unmerciful picture of Hollywood and its demons, told with all the style and raw narrative power that have made Clive Barker's books and films a phenomenon worldwide.</p>

Table of Contents

Prologue The Canyon	1	(6)
The Price of the Hunt	7	(44)
The Heart-throb	51	(52)
A Darker Time	103	(72)
Life After Fame	175	(44)
Desire	219	(74)
The Devil's Country	293	(56)
The A-List	349	(86)
The Wind at the Door	435	(72)
The Queen of Hell	507	(32)
And the Dead Came In	539	(32)
The Last Chase	571	(82)
Epilogue And So, Love	653