by EdwardWright (Author)
Once he was Sierra Lane, hero to countless youngsters in a series of B-movie westerns. Now, after two years in prison, John Ray Horn lives on the margins of post-World War II Los Angeles. His wife has left him, and, blacklisted by the studios, he makes ends meet by collecting debts for his old Indian co-star, Joseph Mad Crow. Then an old friend, Scotty, contacts Horn. He has come across some obscene photos, including one, several years old, of Horn's stepdaughter, Clea. Within days, Scotty is dead, and Clea has run away. Horn's search takes him from neon-lit ocean-front piers to wooded canyons, from rich homes in the Hollywood Hills to Central Avenue, the Harlem of LA, a street rich in jazz and corruption. But will the on-screen tough-guy hero be able to sustain his role off-screen?
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New, Reissue
Publisher: Orion
Published: 04 Aug 2005
ISBN 10: 0752876880
ISBN 13: 9780752876887
Book Overview: Winner of the CWA Debut Dagger for Fiction. Reissued alongside the second novel in the series, THE SILVER FACE - new in paperback. Edward Wright has received terrific reviews for both his novels: 'Late 1940s Hollywood powerfully evoked ... Excellent, exciting first novel, packed with period detail, written from the heart and suffused with rare feeling' Literary Review. 'An excellent first novel, with a beguiling central character, that has the reader yearning for more' Publishing News. 'This is the current winner of the Crime Writer's Association Debut Dagger Award and it certainly deserves such a distinction...a satisfying read, as it is so well-written and honest in its style of story-telling' Tangled Web. 'An impressive, confident debut ... more please' Observer. 'Rich with the sights, sounds and smells of this capital of film noir, CLEA'S MOON is an amazing debut novel' Crime Time. 'An entertaining novel set in 1940s Hollywood ... Wright vividly creates the atmosphere of decadence and superficial glamour of the period' Sunday Telegraph.