The Devil's Wind

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The Devil's Wind
Richard Rayner
James Ellroy meets Joseph Kanon's Los Alamos: a story of mobsters, murder, and the birth of Las Vegas, set against the backdrop of the McCarthy hearings and the testing of the A-bomb in the Nevada desert
The Devil's Wind is set in Las Vegas during the 1950s, a time of the city's swiftest growth, when snazzy new hotels are sprouting on The Strip and, once a month, the Atomic Energy Commission explodes an A-bomb less than sixty miles away. Maurice Valentine is a successful architect from Los Angeles who is slick, cynical, and above all ruled by ambition. But trouble arrives in the form of the beautiful Mallory Walker, who seduces him and turns his world upside down. Is it love? Or might Mallory simply be using Valentine to get close to a powerful Vegas mobster with a finger in every pot? For all his power and cynicism, Valentine finds himself a pawn in a mysterious game of revenge that could cost him all he holds dear.
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The Devil's Wind
Richard Rayner
James Ellroy meets Joseph Kanon's Los Alamos: a story of mobsters, murder, and the birth of Las Vegas, set against the backdrop of the McCarthy hearings and the testing of the A-bomb in the Nevada desert
The Devil's Wind is set in Las Vegas during the 1950s, a time of the city's swiftest growth, when snazzy new hotels are sprouting on The Strip and, once a month, the Atomic Energy Commission explodes an A-bomb less than sixty miles away. Maurice Valentine is a successful architect from Los Angeles who is slick, cynical, and above all ruled by ambition. But trouble arrives in the form of the beautiful Mallory Walker, who seduces him and turns his world upside down. Is it love? Or might Mallory simply be using Valentine to get close to a powerful Vegas mobster with a finger in every pot? For all his power and cynicism, Valentine finds himself a pawn in a mysterious game of revenge that could cost him all he holds dear.
Praise for The Cloud Sketcher
"Excellent. No one who opens The Cloud Sketcher will find it easy to stop reading before the last vertiginous page."
—Chicago Tribune
"Breathtaking. A passionate book that threads architecture, war, and history through the story of two lovers." —USA Today
Richard Rayner was bom in Bradford, England, and now lives in Los Angeles. His previous books include the memoir The Blue Suit, the novel LA. Without a Map, which has been made into a movie starring Johnny Depp, and the novels Murder Book (optioned for film by actor John Malkovich) and The Cloud Sketcher (optioned by director Alan Parker). He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, The New Yorker, and other publications. Vissza