Click to Play by David Handler

Author:David Handler [Handler, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

This is the greatest day of my life, Brink realized as he ran his team of Park Avenue dogs through the Central Park Ramble. And by a strange twist of fate it’s also the worst.

Never before had he experienced so much elation and sheer anguish at the same time. His heart was racing much, much faster than usual. His innards were roiling. His whole being was in turmoil.

As of today Brink Liebling was now an official cast member of By Any Means Necessary. No more flea killer commercials. He’d finally arrived. A certified prime-time television star.

He’d jumped on his Indian Chief that morning and zipped on out to Silvercup Studios in Long Island City to read for the show runners of BAMN. Brink knew them already. He’d auditioned for a role in the gritty cop drama back when they were initially casting. Nailed it, too. But the network wanted a proven West Coast leading man, which was painfully typical when the networks were casting New York shows. They wanted edgy authenticity. Just not too much.

Today, the show runners didn’t want him to read. They just wanted him to say yes. Apparently, their proven West Coast leading man had suddenly dropped out. Or been fired. It wasn’t exactly clear to Brink. And totally didn’t matter. What mattered was they wanted him to play the newly created Joey Murtaugh, a detective with a drinking problem and a junkie for a wife. The part was his. He even had network approval. He couldn’t imagine how. Or believe his luck.

One of the producers noticed the shock on his face and said, ‘You were always our first choice. We just had to wait for the network to come around.’

His agent would be hearing from their money person very soon, they assured him. Which Brink sincerely doubted because, let’s face it, none of this is really happening. But his agent had already texted him the details of their generous offer by the time he’d made it back across the Queensborough Bridge. It was real, alright. He started shooting on Monday. Had a wardrobe fitting tomorrow at ten a.m. followed by a publicity photo shoot. He still hadn’t broken the news to Luze. Couldn’t wait to.

This was the good part of his day. But there was a really, really bad part.

Remember the Alamo.

Hunt was in deep shit. It was all over the morning news that Tim Ferris of The Big Happy Family had been murdered in Topanga Canyon along with three others. According to Herbie Landau, the Panorama Communications tycoon—and Brink’s new uber-boss—Hunt had been out there trying to get some dirt on Senator Gary Dixon from Ferris. Hunt had even been staying at the very house where the murders took place. Now he was missing and the police were looking for him. And Brink had yet to hear a single word from him. No phone call or text message. No email. Nothing. He’d tried calling his brother’s cell a zillion times but the phone just rang and rang—didn’t even go to voice mail.

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