Judy H. (hart2hart) reviewed on 4/20/2007 + 711 more book reviews

Winner of the 2005 Edgar Award for Best Novel. The times, they are a-changin'...The Orange County, Calfironia, that the Becker brothers knew as boyd is no more---unrecognizably altered since the afternoon in 1954 when Nick, Clay, and Andy rumbled with the lowlife Voons, while five-year-old Janelle Vonn watched from the sidelines. It is the era of Johnson, hippies, John Birchers, and LSD. Clay becomes a casualty of a far-off jungle war. Nick becomes a cop, Andy a reporter, David a minister. And the decapitated corpse of teenage beauty queen Janelle Vonn is discovered in an abandoned warehouse. A hideous crime has touched the Bekcers in ways that none of them could have anticipated, setting three brothers on a dangerous collision course that will change their family---and their world---forever. An no one will emerge from the wreckage unscathed.

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