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The Underground Man: A Lew Archer Novel
Paperback
Series: Lew Archer, Book 16
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ISBN10: 0679768084
ISBN13: 9780679768081
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Nov 26 1996
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.13 Depth: 7.94
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780679768081
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Nov 26 1996
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.13 Depth: 7.94
Language: English
The Underground Man is a detective novel of merciless suspense and tragic depth, with an unfaltering insight into the moral ambiguities at the heart of California's version of the American dream. There are certain books that bide their time, like plants, waiting decades to flower.... If a copy of The Underground Man, a novel from 1971, by Ross Macdonald, has been sitting on your shelf for ages, unread and barely noticed, try opening it now. Suddenly it's a book in full bloom. --Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged town in Southern California, Lew Archer tracks a missing child who may be the pawn in a marital struggle or the victim of a bizarre kidnapping. What he uncovers amid the ashes is murder--and a trail of motives as combustible as gasoline. If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler, it was Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his predecessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.
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