The Underground Man Author:Ross Macdonald The underground Man is Ross Macdonald at this most brilliant and brilliantly exciting. It is his first new novel since the best-selling and widely acclaimed The Goodbye Look - and it may well be the finest novel in what The New York Times has called "jthe finist series of detective novels ever written by an American." — The Underground Man bring... more »s Macdonald's cool, pragmatic detective, Lew Archer, to a gragic fire that ravages a hillside community in Southern California. It enmeshes him in the lives of a group of troubled people searching for happy endings but fatally entangled in a web of murder and extortion stretching back through fifteen years.« less