Ride the Tiger

Fame, money and sex, that's what Hollywood is all about. Madelaine Brent wanted them all and she always got everything she wanted. But sometimes everything is too much and somebody can get murdered. She remembered an ancient Chinese proverb her agent told her as a warning, so long ago. 'She who rides the tiger better not dismount.' Was she about to fall off?

The deeply penetrating story of a film star who puts her career and her erotic desires above all else. Madelaine Brent is willing to undergo the tortuous beauty treatments that will keep her on top - a survivor in the film world, the Las Vegas showtime scene and a survivor in the art of love. But Madelaine does not foresee the consequences her actions will have on the men in her life: her British film director husband Charles who is devoted to her, the one-night stand she thought she could dismiss, the French film star who fathered her child, the young writer-director she seduced and the actor who holds her spellbound. Her beautiful daughter Cathy, alienated from her mother, has taken a dangerous path that leads to prison. Maddie's path leads her to a place she didn't expect - and a trail of murders.

PAT SILVER-LASKY Pat’s relationship with Hollywood goes back a long way before she was born. In 1913, her future father-in-law, Jesse L. Lasky, produced the first full-length motion picture The Squaw Man. Her late husband, Jesse Lasky, Jr. wrote over 50 films, 8 for C.B. DeMille, including The Ten Commandments, and Samson And Delilah. Pat began her career as a Hollywood actress and progressed to directing and writing. With Jesse, she wrote 4 books, 8 produced films, nearly 100 produced TV scripts. Her book, SCREENWRITING FOR THE 21st CENTURY was published in 2004 by Chrysalis, Batsford in the UK. Born in Seattle, Washington, she attended the University of Washington, Stanford University and Reed College. She lived in London until 2009. Pat and her cartoonist -artist husband, ‘Peeby’ now live in California.