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Ian Bloom wrote The Western Road at age 21 in New York-young enough to be reckless, old enough to be dangerous-before the novels, before the West, before the code. What emerged was a detonator, half-bullet, half-elegy: cousins raised in gasoline and blood, driving to outrun inheritance. Muscle cars, Malibu cliffs, Hollywood rot, bloodline politics-and a heist that goes right, then wrong. Mustang. '55 Chevy. A girl who wants to be famous. Men who want to be gods. Shot through with operatic violence and salt-stung decay, it reads like a lost early Michael Mann reel with Cormac McCarthy brutality and Joan Didion sun. A document of youth. A first flare. This is where the Bloom myth catches fire.

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Ian Bloom is an American actor and producer, born in Hollywood, and the author of Screwdriver, Savage Recreation, Raw Canvas, and King Kong. He operates privately as an art dealer and publisher, overseeing rights, documentation, and controlled distribution across his catalogue and artist portfolios. Natural Gallery (est. 2025) runs as a private program.

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