California Girl
California Girl
Author: T. Jefferson Parker
Desc: The times they are a-changin' . . . The Orange County California that the Becker brothers knew as boys is no more -- unrecognizably altered since the afternoon in 1954 when Nick Clay David and Andy rumbled with the lowlife Vonns while five-year-old Janelle Vonn watched from the sidelines. The new decade has brought about the end of the orange groves and the birth of suburban sprawl. 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 Beckers 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. And no one will emerge from the wreckage unscathed. --back cover