Glitz

Year: 1988

Runtime: 98 mins

Language: English

Director: Sandor Stern

ActionThrillerCrime

Vincent Marra, a Miami detective on medical leave in Puerto Rico, is forced to confront his past when the sex offender he testified against begins stalking him. As Marra hunts the killer who escaped him, the tables turn and the predator becomes the prey, leading to a tense cat‑and‑mouse chase.

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Detective Vincent Mora Follows a Violent Obsession from Puerto Rico to Atlantic City, where Casinos, Performers, Police, and Criminals All Depend on Reading the Room First · by Elmore Leonard

Why this book?

The television film directly follows Vincent Mora from Puerto Rico to Atlantic City after Teddy Magyk, a man he helped imprison, converts resentment into pursuit and singer Iris Ruiz becomes part of the danger. It preserves the casino setting, Vincent's police instincts, Teddy's obsession, and the interlocking criminals and law officers around a death and robbery, while reducing Leonard's viewpoint changes, location texture, subordinate schemes, and dialogue to fit a two-hour broadcast. The novel lets each participant misunderstand a different part of the plan, making the suspense less a straight chase than a contest in which tone and unwanted knowledge expose who is performing.

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