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Gould is the author of Fort Apache, the Bronx, and, as in that book, his street-wise, smart-aleck commentary sets the right tone for Cocktail . It also carries this picaresque novel along at a fast clip. -New York Times Book Review Cocktail offers a tour-de-force two-page history of (New York's) Upper West Side's gentrification-as seen through drinking habits...Even more impressive: Gould's authoritative, back-room view of the saloon trade-the atmosphere, the stealing, the drugs, the hype, the demographics...grimly amusing entertainment. -Kirkus Reviews Fort Apache, The Bronx is a tough-talking street melodrama, both shocking and sorrowful...it's also entertaining and very moving, which is not something you can say of stories about the decline and fall of civilizations. -New York Times Book Review Gould is a screenwriter, but this yarn, Leading Lady owes more to his days as a reporter for the New York Post...Gould sketches his motley crew in detail without sacrificing his relentless pace. Lots of fun. -Vince Keenan.com Novelist Heywood Gould is back with a noir thriller, full of action, dark humor, multiple killings, and a swath of eccentric characters plucked from the American heartland...This high-caliber redemptive road trip is quick-witted, stylish, and highly entertaining. -Library Journal, Seamus Scanlon, Ctr. for Worker Education, CUNY Director Jay Braffner is making a movie about killing all the people in Hollywood whom he thinks stole his ideas and ruined his career. Unfortunately, the movie is all in his mind, but the victims are all too real. In this blackest of screwball comedies, Gould gives new meaning to the idea of Hollywood backstabbing. -Booklist, Stacy Alesi

"""Gould is the author of ""Fort Apache, the Bronx,"" and, as in that book, his street-wise, smart-aleck commentary sets the right tone for ""Cocktail"". It also carries this picaresque novel along at a fast clip."" -New York Times Book Review ""Cocktail offers ""a tour-de-force two-page history of (New York's) Upper West Side's gentrification-as seen through drinking habits...Even more impressive: Gould's authoritative, back-room view of the saloon trade-the atmosphere, the stealing, the drugs, the hype, the demographics...grimly amusing entertainment."" -Kirkus Reviews ""Fort Apache, The Bronx is a tough-talking street melodrama, both shocking and sorrowful...it's also entertaining and very moving, which is not something you can say of stories about the decline and fall of civilizations."" -New York Times Book Review ""Gould is a screenwriter, but this yarn, ""Leading Lady"" owes more to his days as a reporter for the New York Post...Gould sketches his motley crew in detail without sacrificing his relentless pace. Lots of fun."" -Vince Keenan.com ""Novelist Heywood Gould is back with a noir thriller, full of action, dark humor, multiple killings, and a swath of eccentric characters plucked from the American heartland...This high-caliber redemptive road trip is quick-witted, stylish, and highly entertaining."" -Library Journal, Seamus Scanlon, Ctr. for Worker Education, CUNY ""Director Jay Braffner is making a movie about killing all the people in Hollywood whom he thinks stole his ideas and ruined his career. Unfortunately, the movie is all in his mind, but the victims are all too real. In this blackest of screwball comedies, Gould gives new meaning to the idea of Hollywood backstabbing."" -Booklist, Stacy Alesi"

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Born in the Bronx and raised in Brooklyn, Heywood Gould got his start as reporter for the NY Post. Later he financed years of rejection with the usual colorful jobs - cabdriver, mortician's assistant, tending bar and writing screenplays. Gould is the author of nine novels, among them Cocktail, Fort Apache, The Bronx; Double Bang, Serial Killer's Daughter, Leading Lady and Green Light for Murder both Hammett Award finalists. He has written nine screenplays, including Cocktail, Fort Apache, the Bronx, Boys From Brazil, Rolling Thunder and Streets of Gold. And has directed four feature films, One Good Cop, starring Michael Keaton, Trial By Jury with William Hurt, Mistrial starring Bill Pullman and Double Bang with William Baldwin.

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