California Fire and Life: A Suspense Thriller

Author:   Don Winslow
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
ISBN:  

9780307279859


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   04 September 2007
Format:   Paperback
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California Fire and Life: A Suspense Thriller


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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.

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Author:   Don Winslow
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
Imprint:   Vintage Books
Dimensions:   Width: 13.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.283kg
ISBN:  

9780307279859


ISBN 10:   0307279855
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   04 September 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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 <br> 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. <br>-- The Providence Journal <br> [Winslow finds] a dark, sinister lyricism in the forensics of fire. <br>-- The New York Times Book Review <br> A jazzy California thriller. . . . Think Philip Marlowe if he were still sleuthing--and had taken up surfing. <br>-- 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) 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.


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. --<i>Austin Chronicle</i> 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. --<i>The Providence Journal</i> [Winslow finds] a dark, sinister lyricism in the forensics of fire. --<i>The New York Times Book Review </i> A jazzy California thriller. . . . Think Philip Marlowe if he were still sleuthing--and had taken up surfing. --<i>Entertainment Weekly</i> (Editor's Choice)


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Bestselling author Don Winslow has written nineteen books and numerous short stories, as well as writing for television and film. He has received the Raymond Chandler Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award.  A former private investigator and trial consultant, Winslow lives in Southern California.

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