The Underground Man (Paperback)

As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged town in Southern California, Archer tracks a missing child who may be the pawn in a marital struggle or the victim of a bizarrekidnapping. What he uncovers amid the ashes is murder--and a trail of motives as combustible as gasoline. "The Underground Man "is a detective novel of merciless suspense andtragic depth, with an unfaltering insight into the moral ambiguities at the heart of California's version of the American dream.
If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammetand 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 hintedat. 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 humansin.

"From the Trade Paperback edition."

General

Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Penguin Modern Classics
Release date:	July 2012
First published:	August 2011
Authors:	Ross Macdonald
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-119658-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-14-119658-0
Barcode:	9780141196589

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