Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There’s the sun-worshiping holy man to whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain and the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson’s friends may have arranged his kidnapping. And as Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the mega-rich to jazz joints where you can get beaten up between sets, The Moving Target blends sex, greed, and family hatred into an explosive crime novel.
Written by Maria J. from Excelsior, MN
on October 14th, 2008
Book Rating: 5/5
I became a Ross MacDonald fan via an audiobook picked up at the public library. In the absence of any British mysteries, I grudgingly picked up THE UNDERGROUND MAN, read by Tom Parker, based on the comparisons to Hammett et al. on the cover. MacDonald and Parker are a magical combination. Wonderful characters, snappy dialog, and a melancholy detective, Lew Archer. Parker is the "noir" reader extraordinaire! When I heard Elliott Gould's hideous performance as Chandler's Marlowe, I despaired... if only Tom Parker would re-do all those novels!
