California Fire And Life by Don Winslow - ISBN: 9780099238621
Paperback
Insurance investigator’s fiery intuition clashes with greed and deadly secrets.

California Fire And Life

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    5 May 2000

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Summary

Reissued with a brand new cover.

The woman on the bed had died in the fire. Pamela Vale, aged 34. She had been beautiful, and had been heavily insured. Her husband showed little grief. Her children seemed terrified.

Insurance investigator Jack Wade is sure he knows what happened. All he has to do is to gather the evidence to prove it. And Wade is the best there is—fires talk to him, tell him exactly what happened, and how.

But not everyone shares Wade’s belief that the…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099238621
ISBN-10:0099238624
Author:Don Winslow
Publisher:Cornerstone
Imprint:Arrow Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:5 May 2000
Weight:244g
Dimensions:198mm x 131mm x 24mm
Series:Arrow Books
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Critics Review

A smoking, smoldering threat of a book that flickers and flames and inevitably goes inferno … Cover to cover, it is hot, hot, hot

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 *

About The Author

Don Winslow

Don Winslow has worked as a movie theatre manager, a production assistant, and as a private investigator. In addition to being a novelist he now works as an independent consultant in issues involving litigation arising from criminal behaviour. His novels include The Kings of Cool, Savages, The Death and Life of Bobby Z, California Fire and Life, The Power of the Dog, The Winter of Frankie Machine and The Dawn Patrol. In 2012 Savages was released as a blockbuster film.

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