| | Amazon.com: Streets on Fire: A Jack Liffey Mystery: Books: John Shannon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | While Liffey's search takes him to reactionary Simi Valley, home to some white supremacist groups, the rest of Los Angeles is caught in a wave of unrest, stirred by the brutal police attack (shades of Rodney King) on Abdullah-Ibrahim, a fl Muslim and the new star pitcher for the Dodgers. |
 | | Liffey's daughter Maeve, who comes into her own in this book, teams with Ornetta in a climactic scene that is wrenching and powerful, as the two girls struggle with a wheelbarrow bearing Maeve's injured father, making their way through the riot-riven streets of the city, trying to get Liffey to a hospital. |
 | | Liffey's attempts at detection are bounded at one side by his daughter's attempts to help--which end up creating any father's ultimate nightmare--and at the other by the riots that threaten to send Los Angeles into flames. |
| www.amazon.com /Streets-Fire-Jack-Liffey-Mystery/dp/0786710187 (2419 words) |