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Book is in great shape, dust jacket has some browning with small tearing and edge/shelf wear. Printed on the inside dust cover: David Hook had not been born into the farmer's life, he had chosen it-because he cherished its rugged simplicity, because on a farm he could be the strong idiosyncratic man he was, and watch his family grow with hard work and dignity. His wife Kate's premature death had nearly destroyed him. And now he stood immobile. The coffin bearing the body of his eldest son, Chris, disappeared into the ground. The California police had said it was suicide. David Hook knew that was a lie. Silently, he turned away and boarded a plane for Santa Barbara. To Die in California is the story of Hook's search for the truth about his son's death. In Santa Barbara, where Chris Hook tumbled over the edge of a cliff, several people tell a convincing story-convincing, at least, to the police. But Hook knows it is not the truth, and the casual evil of their lies infuriated him. He encounters, in particular, a professional politician named Jack Douglas and Douglas's stunning, cynical mistress, and, obsessed with pride for those he loves deeply, he becomes their tireless, cagey adversary. He hounds them incessantly, determined to expose them, until, suddenly, he holds in his hands the means of their destruction-and of his own. This is a thrilling work: a story which draws its relentless suspense from the struggle among people violently different in motive, character and degree of courage. In David Hook is embodied the continual fight for the survival of what a man finds honorable and worth loving. Book Club Edition