California Fire and Life - Hardcover

Winslow, Don

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679454314 ISBN 13: 9780679454311

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

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Book by Winslow Don

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An insurance adjuster for California Fire and Life Mutual, Jack Wade investigates the destruction of one of the area's valuable estates in a fire that also killed the owner's wife and finds himself embroiled in a bizarre conspiracy involving the Russian mob, Vietnamese gangs, corporate corruption, and murder

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claims adjuster for California Fire and Life Mutual Insurance Company, is one of the best arson investigators around. He's a man who knows fire, who can read the traces it leaves behind like a roadmap. When he's called in to examine an unusual claim, the tracks of the fire tell him that something's wrong. So wrong that he violates his own cardinal rule--"You don't get personal, you don't get emotional. Whatever you do, you don't get involved"--and plunges into the case.

Real estate mogul Nicky Vale's house is one of the most valuable properties on this stretch of the Southern California gold coast--large, luxurious, crammed with antiques, set on a nice piece of land with a perfect ocean view. After a disastrous blaze tears through a wing of the house, it's only normal that Vale would file an insurance claim. But a $3 million claim is rarely normal, especially not when it's filed within hours of the horrific death of the owner's young and beautiful wife. The County Sheriff's Dep

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0679454314
• ISBN 13: 9780679454311
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 337