ISBN: 0307773183 9780307773180

Category: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled

Page count: 256

The first book in Ross Macdonald's acclaimed Lew Archer series introduces the detective who redefined the role of the American private eye and gave the crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity only hinted at before.<br><br>Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping.<br><br>As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where you get beaten up between sets, <b>The Moving Target</b> blends sex, greed, and family hatred into an explosively readable crime novel.