Duplicitous

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About Duplicitous

Setting a new standard for the psychological suspense genre, James’ masterful work explores the effect that motion pictures have on the character’s collapsing mind. Alex Lumiere, bastard son of the inventor of Cinema, sets out on a journey to reckon his past with the madness that surrounds him as he works as a still photographer on Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard. Hallucinations are merged with the film noir’s story as Alex must unfold dark memories that find him guilty of a fratricidal murder that brought about insanity and suicide. Rarely has a novel taken the reader on a literary journey that is so essential to defining the excesses of tragedy and transcendence in the Twentieth Century. WINNER OF THE 2017 RICHARD KNOX AWARD FOR LITERATURE. “In this first of its kind novel, a still photographer working on Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, discovers that his suspenseful real life parallels the making of the film,” John Adams, The Tolucan Times “The contrapuntal narrative between the film, Sunset Boulevard, and Alexander Lumiere’s life is groundbreaking in literature and makes ‘Duplicitous’ a page turner…and the ending is ingenious.” Stacey Harlan, The Monthly Sentinel Reading ‘Duplicitous’ is an adventure in psychological entertainment. Laurence Jacobs, The Cosmic Rat Journal Nicholas James is a prominent screenwriter and novelist and creator of Total Recall II. When he isn’t writing suspenseful novels, he is in the employ of the major studios, like Twentieth Century Fox, as a sought-after storyteller. He is also the noted author of the acclaimed ‘Hollywood Brat’, a tale of true-life mental horror soon to be brought to the screen.

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