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The goodbye coast, Joe Ide

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The goodbye coast

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1296903947

Joe Ide

"Present-day Los Angeles is still a city of scheming actors, ruthless gang members, and washed-out police; still a city of traffic, inequity, and exquisite cheap food. It is here that Joe Ide, 'the hottest of recently emerged crime writers' (New York Times), imagines a Philip Marlowe very much of our time. He's a quiet, lonely, and remarkably capable private eye, but he also lives beneath the shadow of his father, a once-decorated LAPD homicide detective, famous throughout the city, who's given in to drink after the death of Marlowe's mother. Marlowe, against his better judgment, accepts two missing-person cases, the first, a daughter of a faded, tyrannical Hollywood starlet, and the second, a British child stolen from his mother by his father. As he plunges deeper into each case, disconcerting details emerge, and Marlowe begins to suspect that both clients are withholding crucial information. Nothing is as it seems, and the path to answers is a winding one, leading Marlowe across the blinding wealth of Malibu and into the darkest reaches of the Armenian mob. As he navigates each investigation, he must also confront an old but familiar ache: his troubled and confounding relationship with his father. As much as Marlowe tries to impress, his father cannot hide his bitter disappointment with his grown boy."--, Provided by publisher

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