Jackie Collins The Power Trip (Catlett, VA)

Jackie Collins The Power Trip

Local pick-up preferred but will ship at the buyer s expenseKingston Books 14 IMG_6085Author Jackie CollinsPublisher St. Martins PressAbout the AuthorThere have been many imitators but only Jackie Collins can tell you what really goes on in the fastest lane of all. From Beverly Hills bedrooms to a raunchy prowl along the streets of Hollywood from glittering rock parties and concerts to stretch limos and the mansions of the power brokers -- Jackie Collins chronicles the real truth from the inside looking out. Jackie Collins has been called a raunchy moralist by the late director Louis Malle and Hollywood s own Marcel Proust by Vanity Fair magazine. With over 500 million copies of her books sold in more than 40 countries and with some twenty-nine New York Times bestsellers to her credit Jackie Collins is one of the world s top-selling novelists. She is known for giving her readers an unrivaled insiders knowledge of Hollywood and the glamorous lives and loves of the rich famous and infamous I write about real people in disguise she says. If anything my characters are toned down -- the truth is much more bizarre. From the Inside FlapThe couple on the bed had sex as if it were their final act.And for one of them it was.Neither of them heard the door slowly open.Neither of them observed the shadowy figure enter the room.They were too caught up in the throes of passionate lovemaking.Until . . . one single gunshot.The blood flowed.And for one of them death and org-sm happened at the exact same moment.Life has a strange way of taking you on an unexpected trip.This was one of those timesA luxurious yacht in the Sea of Cortez a birthday cruise for one of the world s most beautiful women and an invitation no one can refuse. The Power Trip take it if you dare.From Hollywood icon and megasseller Jackie Collins comes a thrilling new novel The Power Trip set on a state of the art luxury yacht off the coast of Cabo San Lucas. A tropical getaway with a cast of global power-hungry elites turns sour when they find out maybe they don t control as much of the world as they thought . . . In The Power Trip you will meet Aleksandr Kasianenko a billionaire Russian oligarch as he sets sail on The Bianca. You ll meet his sexy supermodel girlfriend whom The Bianca is named after and five dynamic powerful and famous couples invited on the yacht s maiden voyage Hammond Patterson a driven Senator and his lovely but unhappy wife Sierra Cliff Baxter a charming never-married movie star and his ex-waitress girlfriend Lori Taye Sherwin a famous black UK footballer and his interior designer wife Ashley Luca Perez a male Latin singing sensation with his older decadent English boyfriend Jeromy and Flynn a maverick journalist with his Asian renegade female friend Xuan. You will also meet Russian mobster Sergei Zukov a man with a grudge against Aleksandr. And Sergei s Mexican beauty queen girlfriend Ina whose brother Cruz is a master pirate with orders to hold The Bianca and its illustrious rota of guests for ransom.The Power Trip explorers the decadent playgrounds of the super-rich . . . and leaves you hungry for more.Hardcover with jacket 536 pages ISBN 978-0-312 -56747-7