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    Ever since that night Hugh had tried to convince himself that what he'd done to her had only been a joke that had gone awry-he'd never intended for her to disappear, really - perhaps he hadn't thought it through - perhaps he'd been in some kind of a mental state - yes, a deranged state at that - but he was better now, he'd come out of it. He wasn't a bad person, he wasn't! Somebody else had her now. That man who'd answered her phone. It was his crime now. He was the real criminal.

    - A STRANGER LIKE YOU

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A taut and terrifying thriller about the lengths to which we’ll go to make our dreams come true

Hedda Chase is a top-flight executive producer at Gladiator Films, fast-tracked in the business since she graduated from Yale. An aggressive businesswoman, she recently pulled the plug on a film project initiated by one of her predecessors. The screenwriter on the project was Hugh Waters, a wannabe with a dead-end marriage and a day job at an insurance company. This script was his ticket out-until Hedda tampered with his plans, claiming his violence was over the top, his premise not credible, and his ending implausible. Hugh decides to prove otherwise by staging his script’s ending and casting Hedda Chase as the victim. He flies to Los Angeles and finds Hedda, kidnaps her, and locks her in the trunk of her vintage BMW in the parking lot at LAX. He leaves the keys in the ignition, the parking ticket on the dash, and lets “destiny” take its course.

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    We all have dreams. The idea that there is even a glimmering possibility of a new life can be intoxicating to some. In America, advertising and movies have promoted a cultural expectation to desire a new and improved life – to expect more. What more is, exactly, is up for debate and depends on who you are – but evolution has transformed us into beings who seek a kind of sustenance that takes physical survival for granted and hungers for some mystical emotional elevation that is beyond our grasp. Some pursue it with drugs; some with religion; some with exercise or work. But the pursuit is what interested me – the conquest of a destiny that promises your own spectacular brand of fulfillment. These are some of the ideas I wanted to explore in A Stranger Like You.