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California Fire and Life

A Suspense Thriller

By Don Winslow

By Don Winslow

By Don Winslow

By Don Winslow

By Don Winslow
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By Don Winslow
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Paperback $17.00

Sep 04, 2007 | ISBN 9780307279859

Ebook $5.99

Aug 01, 2012 | ISBN 9780307824592

Audiobook Download $20.00

Mar 10, 2015 | 769 Minutes

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    About California Fire and Life

    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.

    About California Fire and Life

    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.

    About California Fire and Life

    Jack Wade, a claims adjuster for California Fire and Life Mutual Insurance Company, is one of the best arson investigators around. He’s a man who knows fire, who can read the traces it leaves behind like a roadmap. When he’s called in to examine an unusual claim, the tracks of the fire tell him that something’s wrong. So wrong that he violates his own cardinal rule–"You don’t get personal, you don’t get emotional. Whatever you do, you don’t get involved"–and plunges into the case.

    Real estate mogul Nicky Vale’s house is one of the most valuable properties on this stretch of the Southern California gold coast–large, luxurious, crammed with antiques, set on a nice piece of land with a perfect ocean view. After a disastrous blaze tears through a wing of the house, it’s only normal that Vale would file an insurance claim. But a $3 million claim is rarely normal, especially not when it’s filed within hours of the horrific death of the owner’s young and beautiful wife. The County Sheriff’s Department investigator, Brian "Accidentally" Bentley, has declared the fire, well, accidental–caused by Mrs. Vale’s passing out in bed with a bottle of vodka and a lit cigarette–although a careful look at the evidence points to something more sinister.

    When Jack begins his investigation, he draws on his skill, experience and sheer stubbornness to uncover the truth of what’s going on, but each step leads him further into a situation that’s becoming increasingly dangerous. Soon arson is the least of Jack’s worries, as the case grows to involve the Russian mob, Vietnamese gangs, real estate scams, counterfeiting and corporate corruption. In addition, Jack’s forced to confront his own ghosts, including a fatal professional error, and to cope with the sudden reentry into his life of the best thing that ever happened to him: Letitia del Rio, a Sheriff’s deputy whose bombshell looks are exceeded only by her smarts and guts.

    As the investigation spins out of control, Jack finds himself pulled so far in that he might not make it out. His outrageous behavior and defiant integrity, usually about as helpful to him as third-degree burns, may now be the only things that will keep the investigation–and Jack himself–from being snuffed out.

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    About Don Winslow

    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. … More about Don Winslow

    About Don Winslow

    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. … More about Don Winslow

    About Don Winslow

    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. … More about Don Winslow

    Product Details

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Crime Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Sep 04, 2007 | 352 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307279859

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Crime Fiction

    Ebook | $5.99
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Aug 01, 2012 | 352 Pages | ISBN 9780307824592

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Crime Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $20.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Mar 10, 2015 | 769 Minutes | ISBN 9781101912980

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    Praise

    “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)

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