Coney Island is the perfect scene for a crime novel. This was my first impression as I exited Brooklyn’s final subway stop and strolled through boarded up Freak Show stands, the circa-1950’s “Cyclone” wooden roller-coaster, and a limping crack-headed hooker mumbling a solicitation from across Surf Avenue. I had arrived at the infamous Coney Island to film a book trailer for Matt Rees’ new novel, The Fourth Assassin, recently reviewed in the New York Times Book Review.
When I mentioned to Matt that I was going to New York City last year, he asked me to shoot some scenes for the upcoming book trailer which I would be producing for his latest novel in the acclaimed Omar Yussef crime series. In addition to my day in Coney Island, which brought me within inches of getting mauled by a vicious Rottweiler guarding the Headless Woman Concession Stand, my filming adventure took me to the Little Palestine of New York – Bay Ridge. I felt transported back to the holyland while filming at the “Ramallah Cafe”, where I was interrogated and searched by a group of suspicious Palestinian hookah-smoking hoodlums, who finally chased me out of the neighborhood. All in a day’s work…
-I hope you enjoy the trailer and buy the book.
