{"product_id":"2940169521894","title":"The Cutting Room","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike the hero in a classic Hitchcock thriller, the innocent movie buff at the center of this witty and suspenseful novel finds his ordinary life suddenly transformed when he's plunged into a harrowing game of intrigue, duplicity, and danger. Spurred into a frantic race from New York to Hollywood to Barcelona and back, he'll encounter enough hairpin twists, shocking surprises, white-knuckle tension, and sinister characters to give even the master of suspense himself a serious case of vertigo. But in \"this scenario, the mayhem and murder are all too real.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelf-proclaimed movie geek and divorced thirty-something Roy Milano lives alone in a cramped Manhattan apartment, toiling as a freelancer to make ends meet. It is a life perfectly suited to the creator of \u003ci\u003eTrivial Man\u003c\/i\u003e, Roy¿s self-published newsletter¿filled with tidbits of little-known Tinseltown lore for the delight of other fringe-dwelling cinemaphiles. And it¿s a tantalizing phone call from one such kindred spirit that thrusts Roy headlong into his waking noir nightmare.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e¿I¿ve got \u003ci\u003eThe Magnificent Ambersons\u003c\/i\u003e,¿ declares Alan Gilbert, host of a homemade cable-TV show about the silver screen, who now claims to possess the rarest of the rare: the long-lost and never-released complete print of Orson Welles¿ classic follow-up to \u003ci\u003eCitizen Kane\u003c\/i\u003e. But when Roy arrives at his fellow movie maven¿s abode to sneak a peek at celluloid history, the front door is ominously open, Alan Gilbert is dead, and \u003ci\u003eThe Magnificent Ambersons\u003c\/i\u003e is nowhere in sight. Even though the cops arrest a local drug addict for the murder, Roy knows they¿re wrong because the theft of the movie masterpiece points to a different kind of junkie, the kind Roy knows only too well¿and the kind he is certain only he can catch.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut Roy Milano is no Sam Spade, even if he does run into more gun-toting goons, sucker punches, and double-crosses than Bogey on a busy day. And the suspects prove to be anything but usual¿including a bodybuilding film fanatic obsessed with bizarre rumors about an A-list actress, a rotund reporter who holds Hollywood in thrall via red-hot Internet dispatches from his parents¿ basement, and a star-struck street punk with a thousand voices. And then there is the transatlantic love triangle that finds Roy caught between his very own eager Gal Friday and a sultry Spanish siren with a stunning secret. But when the bodies start to fall faster than a box-office bomb, Roy must cut to the chase in his perilous quest to save the Holy Grail of cinema¿and unmask a killer¿before everything fades to black.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100440576240,"sku":"2940169521894","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169521894_p0.jpg?v=1769895987","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169521894","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}