The Underground Man Author:Ross Macdonald ROSS MACDONALD — "His tough but humane detective, Lew Archer, is a beloved hero to crime buffs from Oslo to Tokyo, so beloved indeed that 5.6 million copies of Macdonald's 22 novels have been sold to date. In _The Underground Man_, Archer-Macdonald are working together at their peak, piecing together a most modern American tragedy, making litera... more »ture out of the thriller form, gazing more clearly than ever into the future as it rolls through the smog." - From a _Newsweek_ cover story on Ross Macdonald« less