Vacations in Lake Tahoe, elegant meals, a life filled with Hollywood A-list clients...private investigator Moses Wine has come a long way since his days as a '60s radical. Although he has a loving and sensitive girlfriend, Wine feels as though he's lost touch with his counter-culture roots and is living the kind of bourgeois life he once reviled.
In 'The Lost Coast', Wine's '60s radical days at last come back to haunt him. His handsome college-age son, a mirror of his father's lapsed idealism, has been accused of the murder of a logger in Northern California.
Has a beautiful and mysterious radical pushed his son beyond the breaking point or are there other forces at work? Is his son really a murderer?
Forced to confront his own failings, Wine must ally himself with his hostile ex-wife in a frantic quest to save the most precious thing in their world - their son's freedom.
Laced with Roger L. Simon's observant wit, the romance of a life on the run and not-so-casual sex, this mystery shows why the Los Angeles Times has called Moses Wine, "a force to reckon with and to read with pleasure".
