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When a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon is brought in to surgically erase evidence of a crime after a beautiful pop star suffers a disfiguring assault, he does the one thing a doctor shouldn't, he begins to care. Elvis. Jim Morrison. Marilyn Monroe. They're all frozen in time. Beautiful. At their peak. Well, what if they'd never actually died? What if they were sitting on a beach somewhere still collecting royalties?Plastic is a novel of psychological suspense about some desperate Hollywood image makers who conspire to do the ultimate cover up. After Fay Wray, a ravishingly beautiful nineteen-year-old pop star endures a vicious, disfiguring sexual assault, Dr. Harry Previn, a celebrated Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, is brought in to repair her face and thus surgically erase evidence of a crime. When he fails, a conspiracy ensues to fake her death in return for Jim Morrison-like immorality, but of course if she's dead, she can't press criminal charges. For Previn, beauty has become a life or death proposition because his patients are literally dying to be a beautiful. He's already lost one high profile patient under murky circumstances that still haunts him and have exposed him to blackmail. Will he chance yet another death, even if it's figurative?Plastic explores the ephemeral world of celebrity and beauty at the intersection of Hollywood and rock 'n roll.