L.A. FADE AWAY

In the tradition of What Makes Sammy Run? and Less Than Zero, an edgy novel that takes readers behind the scenes at a big L.A. talent agency, revealing Hollywood’s dark side and the real price of success in show business.

The unnamed narrator in L.A. Fadeaway is twenty-three, the son of a studio head, rich, entitled, and working in the trainee program of the hottest talent agency in Los Angeles. Fueled by massive quantities of unchecked ambition and attitude, he has one goal: become an agent and take over Hollywood. Yet, in spite of his cocky-cool demeanor, living the “life” is not all it’s cracked up to be. This born-and-bred boy of La La Land is consumed with constant anxiety, which he dulls with the usual tools of the trade: Xanex, alcohol, pot, and porn. He knows all too well that Hollywood is a zero-sum game; the only way to get power is to take it. But how far will he go to get out of the mailroom and finally become an agent in his own right? And when he discovers a long-held family secret lurking under the surface of their seemingly perfect life, will it change him or thrust him even further down Hollywood’s rabbit hole of success, money, sex, and apathy? Ready to take his rightful place in the canon with Sammy Glick and Ari Gold, L.A. Fadeaway’s enigmatic hero takes readers deep into this dark, star-filled subculture with a hilarious, brutally honest, and unfiltered eye. In L.A. Fadeaway, never has Hollywood been so frightening—or fun.

Jordan Okun, a former executive at Morgan Creek Productions, rose through the ranks of the agent trainee program at a leading talent and literary agency in Hollywood. He lives in Los Angeles, California.