Smoke over Malibu

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<p>The Hon. Lucius Kluge honourable, lucky, clever might be the only guy in Los Angeles who's still living in the past.</p><p>Lucky pines for the old days of the New Hollywood, before<i>Star Wars</i>and superheroes blew up the movies for good. He spends his days working for an antiques business, his nights boozing and brooding on his former life as an almost-successful screenwriter.</p><p>But when his ex-best friend goes AWOL and his elderly boss is assaulted during the theft of a vintage cookie jar, Lucky and his partner Raul are spurred reluctantly into something like action.</p><p>A satire of sundered friendships and frayed male egos at the Hollywood intersection of art and commerce,<i>Smoke Over Malibu</i>is a soft-boiled mystery, a fish-out-of-water farce, a buddy comedy, an inaction thriller, a hipster indie. It's Raymond Chandler meets Nick Hornby; it's<i>The Big Lebowski</i>meets<i>Lovejoy</i>. It is absolutely, positively not a superhero blockbuster.</p>

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Tim Walker was born in Surrey in 1980. He spent four years in California as the Los Angeles correspondent for the<i>Independent</i>. He lives in London with his family.

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