Are Snakes Necessary? [Paperback]

It's like having a new Brian De Palma picture. - Martin Scorsese, Academy Award-winning director



FROM THE DIRECTOR OF SCARFACE AND DRESSED TO KILL… A FEMALE REVENGE STORY
 
When the beautiful young videographer offered to join his campaign, Senator Lee Rogers should’ve known better. But saying no would have taken a stronger man than Rogers, with his ailing wife and his robust libido. Enter Barton Brock, the senator’s fixer. He’s already gotten rid of one troublesome young woman -- how hard could this new one turn out to be?
 
Pursued from Washington D.C. to the streets of Paris, 18-year-old Fanny Cours knows her reputation and budding career are on the line. But what she doesn’t realize is that her life might be as well…“It’s like having a new Brian De Palma picture.” – Martin Scorsese, Academy Award-winning director

“Brilliant, lurid, twisty fun…compulsively readable and fiendishly constructed.” – David Koepp, screenwriter of Jurassic Park

“One of the world's greatest filmmakers has helped produce a fast-moving page turner, breathlessly paced…irresistible for any De Palma fan.  – Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho

lurid and pulpy goodness - Associated Press  

Deliciously deceptive....right at home in a De Palma movie (something in the mode of Dressed to Kill or Body Double)...a wonderful, immensely satisfying thriller.  -- Booklist Starred Review

A pastiche of hard-boiled crime fiction that doesn’ló;