Review
From the book jacket: The winds of change are raging in 1960s California. Orange groves uprooted for tract houses, people flooding into Orange
County, strange new ideas in the air about war, music, sex, and drugs, and new
influences, ranging from Richard Nixon to Timothy Leary. For the Becker
brothers, however, the past is always present - and it comes crashing back full
force when the body of the lovely and mysterious Janelle Vonn is discovered in
an abandoned orange-packing plant. The Beckers and the Vonns have a history,
beginning years ago in high school with a rumble between the brothers of each
clan. But boys grow up. Now one Becker brother is a cop on his first homicide
case. One's a minister yearning to perform just one miracle. One is a reporter
drunk with ambition. And all three are about to collide with the changing world
of 1968 as each...
Beyond the Book
This is Parker's 12th book. In publication order they are:
Laguna Heat (1985),
Little Saigon (1988),
Pacific Beat (1991),
Summer Of Fear (1993),
The Triggerman's Dance (1996),
Where Serpents Lie (1998),
The Blue Hour (1999),
Red Light (2000),
Silent Joe (2001),
Black Water (2002),
Cold Pursuit (2003),
California Girl (2004 hardcover).
The Fallen will be published in hardcover this March.
Incidentally, the 'T' in Parker's name is just that, a T - it's not short for anything. It seems that his mother thought it would look good on the door of the President! Consider yourself lucky he chose to be a novelist instead; we're richer for it. To his...
