A Los Angeles Times Bestseller! A Thousand Steps is a beguiling thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of a turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. Laguna Beach, California, 1968. The Age of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna, seeking peace, love, and enlightenment. Matt Anthony is just trying get by. Matt is sixteen, broke, and never sure where his next meal is coming from. Moms a stoner, his deadbeat dad is a no-show, his brothers fighting in Nam . . . and his big sister Jazz has just gone missing. The cops figure shes just another runaway hippie chick, enjoying a summer of love, but Matt doesnt believe it. Not after another missing girl turns up dead on the beach. All Matt really wants to do is get his drivers license and ask out the girl hes been crushing on since fourth grade, yet its up to him to find his sister. But in a town where the cops dont trust the hippies and the hippies dont trust the cops, uncovering whats really happened to Jazz is going to force him to grow up fast. If its not already too late. Also by T. Jefferson Parker: The Rescue
- | Author: T. Jefferson Parker
- | Publisher: Forge Trade
- | Publication Date: Feb 14, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 384 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1250890217
- | ISBN-13: 9781250890214