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SHOOTING ELVIS
by Robert M. Eversz
Grove Press, August 1996
217 pages
$12.00
ISBN: 0802135013


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Subtitled CONFESSIONS OF AN ACCIDENTAL TERRORIST, Mary Alice Baker, the accidental terrorist of the title, is a pretty, 24 year old blonde haired blue eyed California girl who dresses up as Gretel and takes pictures of toddlers for a living. One day, her biker boyfriend, Wrex, he of the tattoos, leathers and Doc Martens, begs her to take a briefcase to LAX international terminal for him and swap it for another package. On her way to the airport, Mary Alice peeks inside the briefcase but relocks it and hands it to her contact, as she was instructed. She no sooner leaves the terminal, then it explodes.

Mary Alice knows she's in big trouble, so she transforms herself into Nina Zero, with short black hair, nose and multiple earrings, and a complete change of wardrobe, and a new career. She has to find out who set her up, before she is killed. Her only regret is that she cannot tell her mother what has happened. Nor can she protect her mother from her abusive father.

She lands in a squat in Santa Monica, sharing space with filmmaker Cass, and painter Billy b. She really wants to become a professional photographer, and carries her trusty camera at all times. And the photographs she has taken of her family and friends help her keep her sanity when all around her is exploding.

Eversz, although an expatriate, living in Prague when he wrote this book, gets the ambiance of Southern California, with its insanity and dependency on "The Industry" perfectly. It's a book that could only have been written by someone who got out of Southern California before all his brain cells died.

KILLING PAPARAZZI is the second book in this series and it is just as manic as SHOOTING ELVIS. The third, just out, is BURNING GARBO. Thora Birch has just been signed to play Nina Zero in SHOOTING ELVIS.

 

Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, October 2003

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