Just about all of them would have benefitted from another trip through the typewriter-in about the same way that most screenplays would. First of all, they are written rather casually, as though shot from the hip right onto the page. Reviewing Heat he said "they're not quite as good in a very peculiar way. Goldman says he began the novel with "that main character and I had that opening sequence and I'd been in Vegas a lot and it's such a terrible place to be a compulsive gambler and try to earn a living there." Reception Īccording to Bruce Cook in Chicago Tribune, the quality of Goldman's novels had declined once he started writing screenplays. He is hired by a meek millionaire named Cyrus Kinnick on the pretense of needing a bodyguard, but in actuality the small, modest man seeks lessons in how to be a tougher individual who can properly defend himself. When he comes into a large sum of money after coming to the aid of a woman friend who has been physically abused in a Vegas hotel suite by DeMarco, an arrogant mobster, Nick ends up losing it at the blackjack tables. The trouble is, Nick is a compulsive gambler. The novel is about a man named Nick Escalante, nicknamed "the Mex" by his friends, who hires himself out in Las Vegas not as a mercenary or bodyguard but as a service listed in the Yellow Pages directory under "Chaperone." He eschews firearms but is particularly lethal with sharp objects.Įscalante has one ambition, which is to save up enough money so that he can move to Venice, Italy, for the rest of his life.
Heat is a 1985 novel by William Goldman about a soldier of fortune in Las Vegas.
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