Description: Jack Wade adjusts fire claims for California Fire and Life Mutual. "You don't get involved, he always says, but the claim he has just been handed screams for attention. Not only is it for one of the most valuable homes in the area, but also the police seem a little too eager to call it accidental, and the owner puts through the claim on the very morning his wife's body is found in the rubble. Yet it's only after Wade's investigation starts that he begins to understand what he's dealing with: the Russian mob, Vietnamese gangs, pervasive corruption at California F&L, the woman he once loved and now loves again, repercussions from unsavory incidents in his own past. And although his outrageous behavior and defiant integrity seem as helpful to him as third degree burns, they may be all that can keep the investigation -- and Jack himself -- from being snuffed out.

Darkly funny, irreverent, hot to the touch, California Fire and Life is Don Winslow's most viscerally exciting novel yet.

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