Book description
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? Edward Wright grew up in Arkansas and was a naval
officer and a newspaperman before discovering the greater satisfaction
of writing fiction. He and his wife, Cathy, live in the Los Angeles area
but get away whenever possible to the lakes and trails of the eastern
Sierra Nevada.
