![]() ![]() Bowie, a forger of land claims, and Travis, an unscrupulous country lawyer, hardly fit our prescription for heroes after Davis is done with them. Of the three, Crockett comes off the best, as inventive, yet not immoral like the other two. His 187 pages of notes attest to the thoroughness of his research. ![]() Davis, a much-published historian of 19th-century America, contends that we ""part reluctantly with our myths, and the more so when by removing the fable, we leave a hole in the story that we cannot fill with fact."" In weaving the three strands of his narrative, which come together only in the last pages as the frontiersman, con man and entrepreneur join forces in the Alamo, Davis evokes boisterous Jacksonian America. Crockett had long been a legend in his own time when he turned up in San Antonio to join Bowie and Travis in the pantheon of frontier gallants. In the siege of the compound, all three would die violently in the predawn hours of March 6. A few days later, David Crockett wandered in from Tennessee, where he had lost his bid for reelection to Congress and vowed never to return. In 1836, Bowie and Travis, who would lead the 200 doomed Texas rebels at the Alamo, met for the first time at the walled adobe buildings that were largely comprised of the church of San Jose y Santiago del Alamo de Parras. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The third book in the deal will be the start of a new spin-off series written solely by Evanovich that will be shopped as a film and TV franchise. The first, titled Fortune and Glory, is the 27th book in the Stephanie Plum series. Two of the books to be published by Atria will feature Evanovich’s hugely popular series character, Stephanie Plum. This is a significant publishing industry move, as she is one of the biggest selling authors in the world with 25 #1 New York Times bestsellers and nearly 100 million books sold. Evanovich’s books had been published by Penguin Random House for years. Deal is substantial eight-figures for world rights. EXCLUSIVE: Bestselling author Janet Evanovich has pacted to write her next four novels for the Simon & Schuster imprint Atria Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() In January 2000, Columbia Pictures made seven-figure deals to buy the first two John Corey books that had been published to date, Plum Island and The Lion’s Game, with the idea to establish a potential new feature franchise character. The project can be traced to Sony and Neufeld going back almost 17 years. David Caplan serves as co-executive producer. ![]() ![]() John Corey is executive produced by Richman, Davis Entertainment’s Davis and John Fox and Neufeld. He must come to terms with a department and a city that have changed in a post-Black Lives Matter/Blue Lives Matter world. It centers on John Corey as he returns to the force after being shot. Written by Detroit 1-8-7 creator Jason Richman, John Corey hails from Sony TV, John Davis’ studio-based Davis Entertainment and veteran producer Mace Neufeld. ![]() |