Sam and Rachel head to Hollywood, slipping into the orbit of a blockbuster action star desperate to reinvent himself and the dangerous money circling his next big project. Posing as a life coach and an indie producer, they turn the dream factory into their latest long con-but in a town built on make-believe, it gets harder to tell who's being played and who's ready to make the final cut. The Movie Makers The Movie Makers by Gary Phillips is a sharp, Tinseltown-soaked installment of A Grifter's Song, the crime fiction series created by Frank Zafiro.