By Jane Sumner
Special to the American-Statesman
Those of us who gathered to say goodbye on the grassy slope of Republic Hill at the Texas State Cemetery on May 12, 2009, thought we’d heard the last from legendary author Edwin “Bud” Shrake. We were wrong.
Eleven years later, Shrake, dubbed “the lion of Texas letters,” has come roaring back with a crisp, wild and witty novel inspired by his real-life manic adventures as a screenwriter in 1970s and ‘80s Tinseltown.
A riveting read, "Hollywood Mad Dogs" is the same kind of “eyewitness fiction” as his superb incendiary novel "Strange Peaches," about the right-wing hate and hysteria in Dallas before and after the Kennedy assassination.