Walker is at a party where he meets Rachel. Two days later she turns up at his apartment. However it's not Walker she wants , but her husband Malory who has gone missing. She wants Walker to find him. So begins this strange, beautiful, road-movie of a novel that takes the hero across the vast landscape of middle America on the trail of a man he has never met. And as Walker's search grows in its weird intensity it seems that somebody else is following, searching for him too.
A perfect beach book. Starts off as a classic noir mystery, pretty dame needs help finding a missing man. About half way through the book, so gradually you don't even realize it's happening, you realize our hero has wandered into a phantasmagorical alter universe. Adventure and philosophy follow. Raymond Chandler meets The Twilight Zone.
