California Fire And Life
Subjects, Don Winslow
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The woman on the bed had died in the fire. Pamela Vale, aged 34. She had been beautiful, and had been heavily insured. Her husband showed little grief. Her children seemed terrified. Insurance investigator Jack Wade is sure he knows what happened. All he has to do is to gather the evidence to prove it. And Wade is the best there is: fires talk to him, tell him exactly what happened, and how. But not everyone shares Wade's belief that the woman was murdered. California Fire and Life is ready to pay out Nicky Vale's claim on his wife's accidental death and the destruction of their house. As Wade fights the decision, as he gathers more evidence, he begins to uncover a world of corruption where nothing is quite what it seems, a world where it's not fire that talks, but money. . .The woman on the bed had died in the fire. Pamela Vale, aged 34. She had been beautiful, and had been heavily insured. Her husband showed little grief. Her children seemed terrified. Insurance investigator Jack Wade is sure he knows what happened. All he has to do is to gather the evidence to prove it. And Wade is the best there is: fires talk to him, tell him exactly what happened, and how. But not everyone shares Wade's belief that the woman was murdered. California Fire and Life is ready to pay out Nicky Vale's claim on his wife's accidental death and the destruction of their house. As Wade fights the decision, as he gathers more evidence, he begins to uncover a world of corruption where nothing is quite what it seems, a world where it's not fire that talks, but money. . .Rang parmi les ventes Amazon: #101663 dans eBooksPublié le: 2013-06-28Sorti le: 2013-06-28Format: Ebook KindlePrésentation de l'éditeurThe woman on the bed had died in the fire. Pamela Vale, aged 34. She had been beautiful, and had been heavily insured. Her husband showed little grief. Her children seemed terrified. Insurance investigator Jack Wade is sure he knows what happened. All he has to do is to gather the evidence to prove it. And Wade is the best there is: fires talk to him, tell him exactly what happened, and how. But not everyone shares Wade's belief that the woman was murdered. California Fire and Life is ready to pay out Nicky Vale's claim on his wife's accidental death and the destruction of their house. As Wade fights the decision, as he gathers more evidence, he begins to uncover a world of corruption where nothing is quite what it seems, a world where it's not fire that talks, but money. . .Extrait1 Woman's lying in bed and the bed's on fire.She doesn't wake up.Flame licks at her thighs like a lover and she doesn't wake up.Just down the hill the Pacific pounds on the rocks.California fire and life.2George Scollins doesn't wake up, either.Reason for this is that he's lying at the bottom of the stairs with abroken neck.It's easy to see how this might have happened--Scollins's little Laguna Canyon house is a freaking mess. Tools, wood, furniture lying all over the place, you can hardly walk across the floor without tripping on something.In addition to the tools, wood and furniture, you have paint cans, containers of stain, plastic bottles full of turpentine, cleaning rags .. .This is also the reason the house is a bonfire.Not surprising, really.Not surprising at all.California fire and life.3Two Vietnamese kids sit in the front of a delivery truck.The driver, Tommy Do, pulls it off into a parking lot."Middle of freaking nowhere," says Tommy's buddy, Vince Tranh.Tommy doesn't give a shit, he's happy to be getting rid of the load, atruck full of hot stuff.Tommy pulls over by a Caddy."They love their Caddies," Tranh says to him in Vietnamese."Let 'em," Tommy says. Tommy's saving for a Miata. A Miata is cool. Tommy can see himself cruising in a black Miata, wraparound shades on his face, a babe with long black hair beside him.Yeah, he can see that.Two guys get out of the Caddy.One of them's tall. Looks like one of those Afghan hounds, Tommy thinks, except the guy's wearing a dark blue suit that has got to be hot standing out there in the desert. The other guy is shorter, but broad. Guy wears a black Hawaiian print shirt with big flowers all over it, and Tommy thinks he looks like a jerk. Tommy has him tabbed as the leg breaker, and Tommy is going to be glad to get his money, unload and get the fuck back to Garden Grove.As a general rule, Tommy doesn't like doing business with non-Vietnamese, especially these people.Except the money this time is too good.Two grand for a delivery job.The big guy in the flowered shirt opens a gate and Tommy drives through it. Guy closes the gate behind them.Tommy and Tranh hop out of the truck.Blue Suit says, "Unload the truck."Tommy shakes his head."Money first," he says.Blue Suit says, "Sure.""Business is business," Tommy says, like he's apologizing for the money-first request. He's trying to be polite."Business is business," Blue Suit agrees.Tommy watches Blue Suit reach into the jacket pocket for his wallet, except Blue Suit takes out a silenced 9mm and puts three bullets in a tight pattern into Tommy's face.Tranh stands there with this oh-fucking-no look on his face but he doesn't run or anything. Just stands there like frozen, which makes it easy for Blue Suit to put the next three into him.The guy in the flowered shirt hefts first Tommy, then Tranh, and tosses their bodies into the Dumpster. Pours gasoline all over them then tosses a match in."Vietnamese are Buddhists?" he asks Blue Suit."I think so."They're speaking in Russian."Don't they cremate their dead?"Blue Suit shrugs.An hour later they have the truck unloaded and the contents stored in the cinder block building. Twelve minutes after that, Flower Shirt drives the truck out into the desert and makes it go boom.California fire and life.4Jack Wade sits on an old Hobie longboard.Riding swells that refuse to become waves, he's watching a wisp of black smoke rise over the other side of the big rock at Dana Head. Smoke's reaching up into the pale August sky like a Buddhist prayer.Jack's so into the smoke that he doesn't feel the wave come up behind him like a fat Dick Dale guitar riff. It's a big humping reef break that slams him to the bottom then rolls him. Keeps rolling him and won't let him up--it's like, That's what you get when you don't pay attention, Jack. You get to eat sand and breathe water--and Jack's about out of breath when the wave finally spits him out onto the shore.He's on all fours, sucking for air, when he hears his beeper go off up on the beach where he left his towel. He scampers up the sand, grabs the beeper and checks the number, although he's already pretty sure who it's going to be.California Fire and Life.5The woman's dead.Jack knows this even before he gets to the house because when he calls in it's Goddamn Billy. Six-thirty in the morning and Goddamn Billy's already in the office.Goddamn Billy tells him there's a fire and a fatality.Jack hustles up the hundred and twenty steps from Dana Strand Beach to the parking lot, takes a quick shower at the bathhouse then changes into the work clothes he keeps in the backseat of his '66 Mustang. His work clothes consist of a Lands' End white button-down oxford, Lands' End khaki trousers, Lands' End moccasins and an Eddie Bauer tie that Jack keeps preknotted so he can just slip it on like a noose.Jack hasn't been inside a clothing store in about twelve years.He owns three ties, five Lands' End white button-down shirts, two pairs of Lands' End khaki trousers, two Lands' End guaranteed-not-to-wrinkle-even-if-you-run-it-through-your-car-engine blue blazers (arotation deal: one in the dry cleaners, one on his back) and the one pair of Lands' End moccasins.Sunday night he does laundry.Washes the five shirts and two pairs of trousers and hangs them out to unwrinkle. Preknots the three ties and he's ready for the workweek, which means that he's in the water a little before dawn, surfs until 6:30, showers at the beach, changes into his work clothes, loops the tie around his neck, gets into his car, pops in an old Challengers tape and races to the offices of California Fire and Life.He's been doing this for coming up to twelve years.Not this morning, though.Revue de presse“A smoking, smoldering threat of a book that flickers and flames and inevitably goes inferno. . . . Cover to cover, it is hot, hot, hot.” —Austin Chronicle“The best crime thriller of the year. . . . Mixes two parts of Elmore Leonard with an equal portion of Carl Hiaasen to form an irreverent, ribald hybrid of a thriller that's pure fun.” —The Providence Journal“[Winslow finds] a dark, sinister lyricism in the forensics of fire.” —The New York Times Book Review “A jazzy California thriller. . . . Think Philip Marlowe if he were still sleuthing--and had taken up surfing.”—Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice)Vous trouverez ci-dessous les commentaires du lecteur après avoir lu California Fire And Life. Vous pouvez considérer pour votre référence.
0 internautes sur 0 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile.California Fire and LifePar marie)hélène B-Sintéressant et donne une idée sur le travail des brigades du feu et les problèmes personnels qu'un tel engagement entraine sans compter les responsabilités. Le titre est très bien choisi. C'est exactement ce que l'on trouve dans le livre.
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