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Dan Bessie

Dan Bessie

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Author, book editor and illustrator, screenplay coach, cartoonist, film director, sometime publisher. Since 06 my wife Jeanne and I (she's also a writer), have been living in rural France. 

Commitment

Commitment

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<p>It’s hard to be committed to anyone when you don’t know whom to trust.</p><p>Alexis Toles, a former FBI agent turned undercover CIA agent, is quickly finding that out in Nancy Ann Healy’s newest political thriller, <i>Commitment</i>.</p><p>Alex embeds in a secret organization of intelligence operatives known as The Collaborative. Its partners include operatives from the CIA, National Security Agency, FBI, US Department of Defense, and an entanglement of foreign intelligence agencies.</p><p>It’s about half a year after the death of President John Merrow, a friend and someone she respected. But she remains committed to overthrowing The Collaborative as she works with a onetime adversary who believes the organization’s involved in the president’s death.</p><p>Meanwhile Alex; her wife, Cassidy O’Brien; and Cassidy’s son try hard to live as a family but must first overcome personal struggles, including a nasty custody battle with Cassidy’s ex-husband, Congressman Christopher O’Brien. The family has their own share of secrets that, if unleashed, could affect their hopes for the future.</p><p>There’s no place to turn without discovering people who are not who they claim to be. That can’t stop Alex. She must remain committed to the cause, both at home and as she works against The Collaborative.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12px;">&quot;Dan Bessie's book should be obligatory for anyone considering a creative life. The story is rich in detail, funny, and honest. Bessie has compromised no more than he had to, and reviews a rich and sometimes desperate life as a creative erson who sustained himself by wit and wile. I hope that I'll be able to say as much about my own. / from the forward by PETER COYOTE, Emmy-winning actor / ET, Erin Brocovich, etc.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:12px;"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><em><span style="font-size:12px;">&quot;Reeling Through Hollywood'</span></em></span><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-size:13px;"> is a storyteller's story. It was hard to put down. Reading it was like looking under the curtain and seeing the inside of the movie business. Dan Bessie has written a true description of a life in film. And it is a page-turner.&quot; / Robert Dalva, director and Oscar nominated film editor (The Black Stallion, October Sky, etc)</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:13px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:13px;"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12px;">&quot;If you've ever wondered what Jane Fonda, Spiderman, Clint Eastwood, Bertholt Brecht, Tom and Jerry and Ken and Barbie and Roy and Dale plus others including the Culligan Man and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee have in common, the answer is Dan Bessie. He encounters them all in his lively account of his struggles to make films his way. <em>'Reeling Through Hollywood</em></span><span style="font-size:12px;">' is both a delight and a powerful tutorial in independent filmmaking.&quot; / Tom Rickman, Oscar &amp; Emmy- nominated screenwriter (Coal Miner's Daughter, Truman)</span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> </span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span>            </span><span style="font-size:10px;">            </span></span></p>