The Doll: Webb Wilder, Last of the Full Grown Men

Steve Boyle · Shane Caldwell

Sep 2021 · Webb Wilder, Last of the Full Grown Men Book 2 · Worm Ranchers Publishing LLC · Narrated by Webb Wilder

About this audiobook

Webb Wilder, Last of the Full Grown Men has its quizzical storylines set in a Neo Noir city. The characters have a sense of humor along with tons of insider Pop Culture references. As a series, WWLOTFGM is faithful to the hard-boiled detective / Film Noir visions of the 1940s and 1950s but set in the Pop Culture world of today. Webb Wilder, as a detective, is a semi-urban hero dealing with characters who are bigger than life and twice as preposterous. Webb gets dragged, suckered, or voluntarily dives into situations that seem impossible at first, but logic and luck win out in the end. With all of this intrigue and dark images, Webb Wilder, Last of the Full Grown Men can also be very funny. Consider if Raymond Chandler had written Philip Marlowe for a hybrid of Andy Griffith, Stephen Colbert and Humphrey Bogart.

"The Doll" • This tawdry tale of attempted assassinations, psychotic moms and a little doll torn in two, shows that no matter how full-grown Webb might be, he's still just a guy. Barbie's are not Webb’s kind of plaything, as a fractured doll drives two mothers to the brink of killing each other's kids -- while the kids try to get married to each other. The final twists turn to the ultimate in greed during the last chapter.

About the author

Emmy Award winning Steve Boyle has created music television productions for a wide variety of recording artists - from classic rock stars such as The Beach Boys, Don McLean, and Grand Funk Railroad to classic country artists such as Garth Brooks, Alabama, Eddie Rabbitt and John Anderson. Steve's work as producer, director, writer, editor has aired on CBS, NBC, MTV, CMT, HBO, BBC, and ITV.Steve has received over 60 regional, national and international awards for his work in television, including Emmys, Addys and dozens of international film festival awards, including GOLD at the 2020 Houston International Film Festival and Official Selection at the 2020 Moscow International Short Film Festival. He has also been in the running for Nashville's CMA Music Video Director of the Year, three years in a row. With over one hundred characters buzzing around in his head, Shane Caldwell is a man ahead of his mind. Shane first developed his comic characters on The Sylvan Brothers Comedy Hour. His frequent skewering of entertainment personalities brought about a cult following with everyone from the Judds, Vince Gill and Emmylou Harris to Bob Dylan and Metallica. Shane next starred in his own late night show, "Cuts" where he won an Emmy and Iris award. He has also starred in a Super Bowl commercial, co-starred with Ray Stevens in the feature film "Get Serious," won numerous international film festival awards for his work in a series of Hard Rock Cafe commercials, worked as co-writer and co-star with Jeff Foxworthy, and is currently producing highly rated shows for cable network CMT. The Webb Wilder character was originally created in 1981 for the short comedy film, "Webb Wilder Private Eye." The film was a hit on USA Network's" Night Flight." Webb is also well known as an electrifying performer, creating straight-ahead rock & roll with surf guitar of the Ventures and twang of Duane Eddy, drawing on the feel of blues, R&B, country/rockabilly and film noir. His sound also incorporates influence from Americana music as well as from the British Invasion.Webb has been signed to major labels and worked with independent labels. He has hosted a radio show for Sirius Radio, appeared as an actor in Peter Bogdanovich's 1993 film The Thing Called Love and is currently the afternoon-shift disc jockey for radio station WMOT-FM.