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Publisher: ‎ Forge Books
(January 11, 2022)
Language: ‎ English
Hardcover: ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10: ‎ 125079353X
ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1250793539


 
A Thousand Steps is a beguiling thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of a turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker.

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A THOUSAND STEPS (2022)

Laguna Beach, California, 1968. The Age of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna, seeking peace, love, and enlightenment.

Matt Antony is just trying get by.

Matt is sixteen, broke, and never sure where his next meal is coming from. Mom’s a stoner, his deadbeat dad is a no-show, his brother’s fighting in Nam . . . and his big sister Jazz has just gone missing. The cops figure she’s just another runaway hippie chick, enjoying a summer of love, but Matt doesn’t believe it. Not after another missing girl turns up dead on the beach.

All Matt really wants to do is get his driver’s license and ask out the girl he’s been crushing on since fourth grade, yet it’s up to him to find his sister. But in a town where the cops don’t trust the hippies and the hippies don’t trust the cops, uncovering what’s really happened to Jazz is going to force him to grow up fast.




 CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"...as powerful as a riptide in summer. And like those deceptively strong currents, Parker crafts this mystery slowly at first, until the cultural forces he’s laid bare threaten to inundate a family trying to stay afloat. ...A THOUSAND STEPS reopens for our reconsideration the consequences of clashes between authority and freedom, order and chaos, that persist to this day — and the innocents that will always get caught in the tumult."
--Los Angeles Times
Full Review Here.

"Set in 1968 Laguna Beach, Calif., T. Jefferson Parker’s gripping new novel “A Thousand Steps” (Forge, 368 pp., ★★★★ out of four) opens ominously with the body of a local high-school girl who disappeared two months earlier washing ashore.
--USA Today
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“T. Jefferson Parker is the poet of American crime fiction. . . There’s a damned good reason he has won three Edgar Awards.”
—C.J. Box, New York Times bestselling author of Blue Heaven

“A brave and daring writer.”
—Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of Shanghai Girls

“Parker's muscular writing has dazzled for years. His characters are as authentic as the gripping situations he creates. . . He captivates and chokes the air out of the room. Masterful! There are few if any crime writers out there this good.”
—Ridley Pearson, New York Times bestselling author of the Chris Klick series

“Parker already has two or three titles on my all-time best-ever list. . . and now comes A Thousand Steps, which might be his crowning achievement. It's a great story and a nuanced look at the nation in 1968, and above all it proves no one inhabits character as completely and intensely—Matt Anthony is a changing boy in a changing time, and you won't ever forget him.”
—Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series

“Parker ranks as one of the top contemporary suspense writers.”
—Publishers Weekly

“A pro, that's what T. Jefferson Parker is. His plots are intricate, keenly crafted, clearly mapped . . .”
—Los Angeles Times

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