Night Train to Rangoon

ISBN: 0595165311

Author: Rosner, Paul

Condition: New

Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Holly Rogers lit another cigarette and stared over at the lumpy form in the next bed. My God, how it snores, she said to herself. Even asleep, it's obtrusive. She got up with a shiver of disgust and moved to the wide windows overlooking most of Bombay. One of the only reasons she consented to attend that stupid film festival was in the hope that somehow this lumpy snoring tub of lard might contract some rare Indian disease and conveniently croak in the Ghanges. But it didn't even get dysentery. Everyone else gets dysentery in India, but not the Monster Lump of the Hollywood Hills. She could just hear the Monster Lump shouting to the world: "I don't GET dysentery---I GIVE dysentery." Oh, well. Five more months, and she'd be 18---at last!---and free of her. Could she wait five more months? Every day was like a decade. How COULD one murder one's mother and not be found out? In India, that is. She'd thought of at least a dozen ways of doing her in in Hollywood and New York, but always there remained a slight danger of a prominent movie star getting into a bit of trouble when her mother is found hacked to pieces in the ladies' room of The Bistro or by the popcorn machine at the Westwood Bruin. India was different. There must be ways of disposing of even so fat a body in some remote region of this vast country without anyone asking questions. Product Description A mysterious Eurasianan alcoholic British golf proa teen-age Hollywood star and her monster stage mothera sex-starved American diplomata Soviet agenta Burmese hijackerthese are some of the fascinating people you will meet in this thrilling tale of intrigue and murder. About the Author Paul Rosner is not only a novelist, but a playwright, a lyricist and a librettost as well. "Night Train to Rangoon" is his first novel since his brilliant study of two actresses, "The Princess and the Goblin", became a cult classic. He also has one of the most popular poetry web sites on the Internet, "Love Songs for People Who Have Been in Love More Than Once", a compilation of his lyrics dealing with every facet of love and romance.