The Dream Lover — Lawrence Sanders

The setting is Hollywood, the factory of golden dreams - and the ingredients are highly explosive. Decadence. Fame. Money. Power. Passion. And a delicious obsession that lures one haunted man into the most dangerous dream of all - the seductive nightmare of betrayal... For studio executive Eli Hebron, there was no escape. Not from the bewitching dream web of Hollywood in 1927, on the eve of sound. Not from the irresistible lure of power that sparked the garish circus of studio politics. Not from the seductive Gladys Divine, the hopeful young starlet whose beauty threatened to lead Eli, still stunned from his movie-star wife's suicide, to the ultimate disaster.

He was a dreamer, an artist, a poet. But in the glittering world of Hollywood - where deception was a business and the dollar reigned supreme - those who dreamed big...fell hard.