Offering shelter to a young Mexican woman who barely survived an attack on her life, former surfer and ex-convict Fahey finds their subsequent relationship threatened by those who would kill the woman for her activism activities against exploitative foreign factory owners. Reprint. 35,000 first prin[...]

From "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize winner Kem Nunn and "principal heir to the tradition of Raymond Chandler and Nathanael West" ("The Washington Post")--an intense psychological suspense novel about a San Francisco neuropsychiatrist who becomes sexually involved with a woman suffering from multiple[...]

In seedy Pomona, Dan Brown's brother has been killed. Dan plans his revenge, but it isn't only Buddy Brown who's died. Pomona Queen takes a black-comic look at the desolation of this sleazy demimonde, with its decaying orange groves and its violent, druggy denizens. "Nunn is a swift, economical s[...]