The Fourth Wall (Dagmar Shaw Thrillers #3)

by Walter Jon Williams

Overview

"Walter Jon Williams is a visionary of tremendous power and originality . . . He kills every damn time."
--Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author


Dagmar Shaw is back in Hollywood, with a plan to lasso a series of emerging technologies into a revolutionary new form of entertainment.

Sean Makin is a washed-up child actor clinging to life on reality television, until Dagmar offers him the chance to be a star.

Sean's past, however, holds the darkest of secrets, and now it looks as if that secret threatens to break loose in a new cycle of violence and murder.

Sean's determined to succeed, even if the path to stardom is splashed with blood. But the ultimate secret is Dagmar's, and Sean has to decide how much to pay in order to find out what's on the other side of the fourth wall.

" . . . the blending of mystery-thriller, SF, and traditional Hollywood-story elements is hugely successful. It's one of those ambitious, genre-bending books in which you keep seeing, as you read, ways the story could fall apart under its own weight--but it never does. Surely the best of the Dagmar Shaw series and one of the author's finest novels." --Booklist (starred review)

"This is an ambitious novel, blending elements of science fiction, thriller and Hollywood epic into one wildly inventive narrative. It's the kind of genre-bender that you can spend a lot of time trying to describe, or you can simply say: go read it, right now." --David Pitt, Winnipeg Free Press

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158854323
Publisher:	World Domination, Ltd.
Publication date:	10/01/2017
Series:	Dagmar Shaw Thrillers , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	868,182
File size:	366 KB

About the Author

Walter Jon Williams is an award-winning author who has been listed on the best-seller lists of the New York Times and the Times of London. He is the author of twenty-seven novels and three collections of short fiction.

His first novel to attract serious public attention was Hardwired (1986), described by Roger Zelazny as "a tough, sleek juggernaut of a story, punctuated by strobe-light movements, coursing to the wail of jets and the twang of steel guitars."

In 2001 he won a Nebula Award for his novelette, “Daddy’s World,” and won again in 2005 for “The Green Leopard Plague.”
He has also written for George RR Martin's Wild Cards project.

His latest work is Quillifer, a epic fantasy.

Walter has also written for comics, the screen, and for television, and has worked in the gaming field. He was a writer for the alternate reality game Last Call Poker, and has scripted the mega-hit Spore.

Editorial Reviews

"This is an ambitious novel, blending elements of science fiction, thriller and Hollywood epic into one wildly inventive narrative. It's the kind of genre-bender that you can spend a lot of time trying to describe, or you can simply say: go read it, right now."

David Pitt

" . . . the blending of mystery-thriller, SF, and traditional Hollywood-story elements is hugely successful. It's one of those ambitious, genre-bending books in which you keep seeing, as you read, ways the story could fall apart under its own weight--but it never does. Surely the best of the Dagmar Shaw series and one of the author's finest novels."

Booklist Starred