Uber talented multi-hyphen Jon Lindstrom has recently added “novelist” to his majorly impressive CV, something that he and his General Hospital alter-ego now have in common. Dr. Kevin Collins did, after all, pen General Homicide, a whodunit that provided a blueprint for a psycho with scores to settle.
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Lindstrom’s pulse-pounding thriller, now available at retailers (both brick and mortar and online) nationwide, concerns Winstone Greene, “a has-been film star,” who awakens one morning, “to find his six-year-old granddaughter at his bedside—traumatized, unattended, and gripping onto a thumb drive. She comes bearing video proof that her mother, Win’s troubled adult daughter, has been kidnapped by a murderous gang demanding all his “movie money” for her safe return. But what they don’t know is…his movie money is long gone.
“Unable to go to the police for fear the kidnappers will make good on their promise to kill his daughter, Winston turns to two close friends—a legendary Hollywood stuntman and a disgraced former LAPD detective.”
During an exclusive chat with Soaps.sheknows, Lindstrom confessed that a late, great, bona fide Hollywood celebrity proved the inspiration for his main character. The star in question? Tom Sizemore.
But unlike the ultimate tragedy that was Sizemore’s life (the Golden Globe Award nominee was felled by a brain aneurysm back in 2003), Lindstrom’s protagonist was able to soldier on and find a modicum of respite.
Explained the writer, “What if Tom had gotten himself together in time to still remain healthy enough to keep living? Because from what I understand, he had just abused himself so much, he just gave out.”
Lindstrom went on to explain that Sizemore “was very much like Winston Greene,” adding, “He came into town, and he was immensely gifted and working with the very best of everyone — the directors and actors and projects and all of that. And it all went sideways on him. And you know, there are a lot of factors that go into a Hollywood career, one really important one is whether or not people can trust you to show up.”
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