Dance With The Devil Author:Kirk Douglas Hollywood can be a tough town, but it's been awfully good to Danny Dennison. At midlife, he's wealthy, successful, and, although the movies he directs are more hot commerce than great art, he's respected throughout the film world. But Danny Dennison has been living a lie. His true identity is buried halfway around the world in the ruins of a Naz... more »i concentration camp. Danny believes his secret to be safe -- until he meets Luba, a young, sensuous call girl, whose mesmerizing sexuality begins to shatter his well-guarded facade.
Thought-provoking and original, riveting and erotic, Dance With The Devil is a novel of passion and guilt by the acclaimed actor whose autobiography, The Ragman's Son, was an international best-seller. With this book, one of the most powerful fiction debuts in recent years, Kirk Douglas displays the insight, flair for drama, and skill at characterization that have made him a renowned actor -- and now a novelist to be reckoned with.
At the heart of this fast-paced page-turner is the story of one man's struggle for redemption -- as the Jew he's pretended not to be, as an artist, as a father struggling to regain his child, and as a lover desperately trying to lose himself in the arms of a woman who arouses him as no one has before. Few readers will be left unmoved by Danny Dennison's search for the soul he believes he lost so many years ago.« less