Announced by Entertainment Weekly, legendary filmmaker Brian De Palma (Scarface, Carrie) has put down the camera and picked up the pen to co-write the upcoming novel Are Snakes Necessary? for Hard Case Crime. It’ll be De Palma’s first novel, written with Susan Lehman.
EW describes the book as “a blistering political satire that doubles as a female revenge thriller.”
“It follows a philandering senator who’s cheating on his Parkinson’s-afflicted wife with his campaign’s beautiful young videographer. When things go wrong, the senator calls in his fixer to set them right, with deadly consequences stretching from Washington to Paris.”
The cover art, shared by EW and found below, features a quote from Martin Scorsese. “It’s like having a new Brian De Palma picture,” Scorsese raves.
Are Snakes Necessary? will be released on March 17, 2020.
