Vacations in Lake Tahoe, elegant meals, a life filled with Hollywood A-list clients...private investigator Moses Wine has come a long way since his days as a '60s radical. Although he has a loving and sensitive girlfriend, Wine feels as though he's lost touch with his counter-culture roots and is living the kind of bourgeois life he once reviled.In THE LOST COAST, Wine's '60s radical days at last come back to haunt him. His handsome college-age son, a mirror of his father's lapsed idealism, has been accused of the murder of a logger in Northern California. Has a beautiful and mysterious radical pushed his son beyond the breaking point or are there other forces at work? Is his son really a murderer?Forced to confront his own failings, Wine must ally himself with his hostile ex-wife in a frantic quest to save the most precious thing in their world -- their son's freedom.Laced with Roger L. Simon's observant wit, the romance of a life on the run and not-so-casual sex, this mystery shows why the Los Angeles Times has called Moses Wine, "a force to reckon with and to read with pleasure."
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Review:
"In the half-light, she too seemed almost like a 20-year-old girl, the one I had first seen being hoisted in a wicker basket by war protesters into the occupied Berkeley Administration Building while the crowd applauded both her guts and her beauty. 'I hate time,' I said." That's Moses Wine, the famed hippy detective (remember Richard Dreyfus in The Big Fix?), reunited with his ex-wife as they try to help their son evade a trap set by over-the-top ecologists, feds, and nasty business types. The whole book has the sweet, sad, slightly sappy tone of that quote--"nostalgia leavened with honesty"--and Roger Simon's topnotch writing and plotting skills haven't lost many steps.
Review:
- "Roger Simon remains the shining hope in a field of endeavor glutted by mediocrity and boring repetition--the only mystery writer of his generation worthy to be placed alongside Ross Macdonald on the shelf."
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- PublisherUNKNO
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 074345913X
- ISBN 13 9780743459136
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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