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He has written several best-selling books, including Hollywood Animal, an autobiography about politics in Hollywood, which superimposes his life as a young immigrant in America on his life as a powerful Hollywood player. A third book, The Devil's Guide to Hollywood, was published in September 2006.
His book Crossbearer: A Memoir of Faith was published in 2008. It tells the story of his return to the Roman Catholic Church and his newfound devotion to God and family after surviving a throat cancer diagnosed in 2001.
Esterhas wrote a book about his experiences with Mel Gibson and anti-Semitism, entitled Heaven and Mel, wherein he paints a terrifying picture of Gibson as a man fueled only by hatred, prone to violent outbursts. Among many damning statements is Eszterhas's claim that while staying with Gibson at Gibson's Costa Rican estate to work on a script, he became so afraid of Gibson that he resorted to sleeping with a golf club in hand.
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