The Last Afternoon: Crime, Mayhem and Murder on the San Francisco Peninsula
Book Details
Author(s)Henry Ambrose
PublisherTwo Dogs Publishing Co.
ISBN / ASINB00WL6YW2S
ISBN-13978B00WL6YW20
Sales Rank99,999,999
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
No plans, no future. Just killing time.
California, 1973: Along the San Francisco Peninsula, the California dreams of the Greatest Generation are fading, while the golden age of the Silicon Valley looms on the horizon. For the generation coming of age in their parents’ lengthening shadows, being a teenager without prospects was like living through the end of the world in a decade of joy-riding, drugs, parties and mayhem.
It was a simple plan.
Lost in suburbia, Mike Kyle, Wade Weakland, Dave Simmons and their friends are in a headlong race to stay high and happy. Now they’ve set their eyes on a resurrection: bringing Mike’s dream car back to life. To do it, they just need to steal another car to strip for parts, and Mike knows just the one.
A fast-paced, tense thriller that stays burned into your mind, The Last Afternoon tears through the California coastside with brutal consequences. Drawing from his years working in Juvenile Probation, Henry Ambrose tells this tightly plotted story as no one else can: with gleaming chrome details, fully rounded characters, and an eye on the darkness just beneath the surface of Seventies America.
California, 1973: Along the San Francisco Peninsula, the California dreams of the Greatest Generation are fading, while the golden age of the Silicon Valley looms on the horizon. For the generation coming of age in their parents’ lengthening shadows, being a teenager without prospects was like living through the end of the world in a decade of joy-riding, drugs, parties and mayhem.
It was a simple plan.
Lost in suburbia, Mike Kyle, Wade Weakland, Dave Simmons and their friends are in a headlong race to stay high and happy. Now they’ve set their eyes on a resurrection: bringing Mike’s dream car back to life. To do it, they just need to steal another car to strip for parts, and Mike knows just the one.
A fast-paced, tense thriller that stays burned into your mind, The Last Afternoon tears through the California coastside with brutal consequences. Drawing from his years working in Juvenile Probation, Henry Ambrose tells this tightly plotted story as no one else can: with gleaming chrome details, fully rounded characters, and an eye on the darkness just beneath the surface of Seventies America.
