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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100307279855
ISBN-139780307279859
eBay Product ID (ePID)59077082
Product Key Features
Book TitleCalifornia Fire and Life : a Suspense Thriller
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicThrillers / Crime, Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Thrillers / Suspense
Publication Year2007
GenreFiction
AuthorDon Winslow
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight10.6 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"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), "Intriguing and suspenseful." --The San Diego Union-Tribune "[A] jazzy California thriller . . . Think Philip Marlowe if he were still sleuthing--and had taken up surfing." --Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice) From the Paperback edition.
Dewey Decimal813.5/4
SynopsisJack Wade was the rising star of the Orange County Sheriffs Department's arson unit, but a minor scandal cost him everything, except his encyclopedic knowledge of fire. Now working as an insurance claims investigator, Jack is called in to examine a suspicious claim: real estate millionaire Nicky Vale's house has burned to a crisp--with his young and gorgeous wife in it. Jack follows the evidence into the crime infested inferno of the California underworld, filled with Russian mobsters, Vietnamese hoods, American crooks, and enough smoldering vice to char the entire gold coast. Things get so hot and deadly that Jack might not make it out alive . . . that is until he decides to fight fire with fire., Margaret Songs are three songs of Margaret Elliot, a character in Libby Larsen's chamber opera, "Eric Hermannson's Soul," based on a short story of Willa Cather. It charts one woman's emotional journey through a love affair., FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CARTEL. When Jack Wade is called in to examine a suspicious arson claim, he follows the evidence into the crime infested inferno of the California underworld. Jack Wade was the rising star of the Orange County Sheriffs Department's arson unit, but a minor scandal cost him everything, except his encyclopedic knowledge of fire. Now working as an insurance claims investigator, Jack is called in to examine a suspicious claim: within hours of a disastrous blaze tearing through a wing of real estate mogul Nicky Vale's house-- causing the horrific death of his young wife--he filed a 3 million-dollar insurance claim. The tracks of the fire tell Jack that something's wrong, and as he follows the evidence the case grows to involve the Russian mob, Vietnamese gangs, real estate scams, counterfeiting and corporate corruption. Things get so hot and deadly that Jack might not make it out alive . . . that is until he decides to fight fire with fire.
