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"Silken skin pale against dark hair, red lips provocatively smiling at him that's how Lieutenant Bret Taylor remembered Lorraine. He was drunk when he married her, stone cold sober when he found her dead. Out on the sunlit streets of L.A. walked the man her lover, her killer who had been with her that fatal night. Taylor intended to find him. And when he did, the gun in his pocket would provide the quickest kind of justice. But first Taylor had to find something else- an elusive memory so powerful it drove him down three terrifying roads toward self-destruction grief, ecstasty, and death." No library descriptions found. |
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Bret Taylor, a seemingly-shell-shocked Navy veteran, returns to his civilian life in California. A couple of complications: his ill-chosen wife's been murdered, and his loyal screenwriter girlfriend is almost overcome with complex, mixed emotions.
Sounds hokey in the extreme, but the characterization is superb, the writing incredibly taut, and the ending highly satisfactory, if inevitable.
Macdonald is seriously underrated; this is an excellent novel all around.
Highly recommended. ( )