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An insurance adjuster for California Fire and Life Mutual, Jack Wade investigates the destruction of one of the area's valuable estates in a fire that also killed the owner's wife and finds himself embroiled in a bizarre conspiracy involving the Russian mob, Vietnamese gangs, corporate corruption, and murder
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--The San Diego Union-Tribune
" [A] jazzy California thriller . . . Think Philip Marlowe if he were still sleuthing--and had taken up surfing."
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" [Winslow finds] a dark, sinister lyricism in the forensics of fire."
-- "The New York Times Book Review"
" A jazzy California thriller. . . . Think Philip Marlowe if he were still sleuthing--and had taken up surfing."
-- "Entertainment Weekly" (Editor's Choice)
" A smoking, smoldering threat of a book that flickers and flames and inevitably goes inferno. . . . Cover to cover, it is hot, hot, hot. " -- Austin Chronicle
" The best crime thriller of the year. . . . Mixes two parts of Elmore Leonard with an equal portion of Carl Hiaasen to form an irreverent, ribald hybrid of a thriller that's pure fun. "
-- The Providence Journal
" [Winslow finds] a dark, sinister lyricism in the forensics of fire. "
-- The New York Times Book Review
" A jazzy California thriller. . . . Think Philip Marlowe if he were still sleuthing--and had taken up surfing. "
-- Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice)
A smoking, smoldering threat of a book that flickers and flames and inevitably goes inferno. . . . Cover to cover, it is hot, hot, hot. Austin Chronicle
The best crime thriller of the year. . . . Mixes two parts of Elmore Leonard with an equal portion of Carl Hiaasen to form an irreverent, ribald hybrid of a thriller that's pure fun.
The Providence Journal
[Winslow finds] a dark, sinister lyricism in the forensics of fire.
The New York Times Book Review
A jazzy California thriller. . . . Think Philip Marlowe if he were still sleuthing--and had taken up surfing.
Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice)"
"A smoking, smoldering threat of a book that flickers and flames and inevitably goes inferno. . . . Cover to cover, it is hot, hot, hot." --Austin Chronicle
"The best crime thriller of the year. . . . Mixes two parts of Elmore Leonard with an equal portion of Carl Hiaasen to form an irreverent, ribald hybrid of a thriller that's pure fun."
--The Providence Journal
"[Winslow finds] a dark, sinister lyricism in the forensics of fire."
--The New York Times Book Review
"A jazzy California thriller. . . . Think Philip Marlowe if he were still sleuthing--and had taken up surfing."
--Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice)
-A smoking, smoldering threat of a book that flickers and flames and inevitably goes inferno. . . . Cover to cover, it is hot, hot, hot.- --Austin Chronicle
-The best crime thriller of the year. . . . Mixes two parts of Elmore Leonard with an equal portion of Carl Hiaasen to form an irreverent, ribald hybrid of a thriller that's pure fun.-
--The Providence Journal
-[Winslow finds] a dark, sinister lyricism in the forensics of fire.-
--The New York Times Book Review
-A jazzy California thriller. . . . Think Philip Marlowe if he were still sleuthing--and had taken up surfing.-
--Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice)
Don Winslow has worked as a private investigator in London, Amsterdam and various places in the United States, and as an arson investigator in Los Angeles for more than 15 years. He lives in California.
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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0679454314
- ISBN 13 9780679454311
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages337
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