I Smell a Rat (Pack)

Here’s an interesting tidbit of news, offered by prolific author Robert J. Randisi on his fellow writer, Ed Gorman’s blog:

I’ve sold film right[s] to my first Rat Pack book, Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime, to Sandy Hackett, the late Buddy Hackett’s son. I will be writing the screenplay. Plans are to begin filming [in] January 2010. Sandy Hackett will star as Sands Casino pit boss Eddie G., who in the story is asked by Frank Sinatra to help find out who is sending Dean Martin threatening notes, while they are filming Ocean’s 11 in 1960 Las Vegas. All of the Rat Pack members appear in the book, as well as other historical characters like Sands boss Jack Entratter, George Raft and Angie Dickinson.

This book was followed last year by Luck Be a Lady, Don’t Die, and in December Hey There (You With the Gun in Your Hand) will be published. All the books come from St. Martin’s Press, and I’m presently working on the fourth, You’re Nobody Til Somebody Kills You.

Cool, daddy-o, cool.