Stardust

Summary

The acclaimed,bestselling author of The Good German and Los Alamos returns withhis most absorbing and accomplished novel yet—a mesmerizing tale of Hollywood,postwar political intrigue, and one man’s determination to learn the truthabout his brother’s death.

Hollywood, 1945.Ben Collier has just arrived from war-torn Europe to find his brother has diedunder mysterious circumstances. Why would a man with a beautiful wife, asuccessful movie career, and a heroic past kill himself?

Ben enters theuneasy world beneath the glossy shine of the movie business, where politics andthe dream factories collide, and Communist witch hunts are rendering thebiggest star makers vulnerable. Even here, where the devastation of Europeseems no more real than a painted movie set, the war casts long and dangerousshadows. When Ben learns troubling facts about his own family’s past andembarks on a love affair that never should have happened, he is caught in a webof deception that shakes his moral foundation to its core.

Rich with atmosphere and period detail, Stardust flawlesslyblends fact and fiction into a haunting thriller evoking both the glory days ofthe movies and the emergence of a dark strain of American political life.