Cobra Woman — Len Levinson

What was the strange allure of the Cobra Woman?A young advertising copywriter arrives at a TGIF party on Manhattan’s fashionable west side. He notices a beautiful woman — a woman bearing a striking resemblance to Maria Montez, a 1940s movie star.Sam Wishnefsky remembers Cobra Woman, a low-budget movie from late night TV when he was a kid. He watched her movies, and forgot her as he grew older. Now, amazingly this Maria Montez lookalike has materialized twenty feet away.Soon, his curiosity becomes obsession — lifting Sam to heights of ecstasy and plunging him to misery; Provoking in him thoughts of suicide and murder. Something has to give, and if Sam isn’t careful, it just might be his sanity … and his life.Len Levinson is the author of the explosive series The Rat Bastards. Now he travels down a different path, the shadowy alleyways and side streets of hardboiled crime fiction.