Clea's Moon (A John Ray Horn Thriller, Book 1) - Softcover

Wright, Edward

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9780752876887: Clea's Moon (A John Ray Horn Thriller, Book 1)

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ISBN 10: 0752876880 ISBN 13: 9780752876887

Publisher: Orion, 2005

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Once he was Sierra Lane, hero to countless youngsters in a series of B-movie westerns. Now, after two years in prison, John Ray Horn lives on the margins of post-World War II Los Angeles. His wife has left him, and, blacklisted by the studios, he makes ends meet by collecting debts for his old Indian co-star, Joseph Mad Crow. Then an old friend, Scotty, contacts Horn. He has come across some obscene photos, including one, several years old, of Horn's stepdaughter, Clea. Within days, Scotty is dead, and Clea has run away.

Horn's search takes him from neon-lit ocean-front piers to wooded canyons, from rich homes in the Hollywood Hills to Central Avenue, the Harlem of LA, a street rich in jazz and corruption. But will the on-screen tough-guy hero be able to sustain his role off-screen?

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Review:

'An excellent first novel, with a beguiling central character, that has the reader yearning for more' -- Oscar Tame, 'Books of the Year', in Publishing News

'Excellent, exciting first novel, packed with period detail, written from the heart and suffused with rare feeling' -- Literary Review

'Winner of the Debut Dagger... and it certainly deserves such a distinction...a satisfying read... so well-written and honest in its style of story-telling' -- Tangled Web

Book Description:

Evocative post-World War II crime novel set in LA, starring ex-movie-star and now debt-collector, John Ray Horn

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