A USA Today Best of 2022, and 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. Mom's a stoner, his deadbeat dad is a no-show, his brother's
fighting in Nam . . . and his big sister Jazz has just gone missing. The
cops figure she's just another runaway hippie chick, enjoying a summer
of love, but Matt doesn't believe it. Not after another missing girl
turns up dead on the beach.
All Matt really wants to do is get his driver's license and ask out the
girl he's been crushing on since fourth grade, yet it's up to him to
find his sister. But in a town where the cops don't trust the hippies
and the hippies don't trust the cops, uncovering what's really happened
to Jazz is going to force him to grow up fast.
If it's not already too late.
Also by T. Jefferson Parker:
The Rescue
