At first seduced by the glamour of movie star Dulcie Warren, Johnny in the end reciprocates the love of Kessler's daughter Doris. The Predators combines in one novel the finest attributes of A Stone for Danny Fisher and The Carpetbaggers. NEVER LOVE A STRANGER became an immediate bestseller. When he was thirty, Harold Robbins began to write. He left school at fifteen-and-a-half to go to work, and by the time he was twenty-one had made his first fortune and lost it. See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. Johnny Edge is a small-time hustler who helps nickelodeon owner Peter Kessler rise to be a major Hollywood producer of quality films. Harold Robbins's historical novel of the twentieth century, The Predators, is the defining work of the author's spectacular career. Born in New York in 1916, Harold Robbins grew up during the Depression. Harold Robbins (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. Whereas The Carpetbaggers concerns Hollywood in the heyday of the studio system, The Dream Merchants concerns the early years of independent entrepreneurship, and The Inheritors concerns the new world of television.Īt the time of original publication, The Saturday Review called The Dream Merchants 'by far the most ambitious novel ever to be fashioned around the American motion-picture industry.' As in the case of The Depression in the New York Trilogy, the novels deal with unrelated characters but create a panorama when read in conjunction. Together with The Dream Merchants (1969) and The Inheritors (1969), The Carpetbaggers is part of Robbins's Hollywood Trilogy.

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