"this audiobook is an engaging listen driven by the appeal of its young protagonist." - AudioFile Magazine
A Thousand Steps is a gripping thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of 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 Antony 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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Forge Books
1 of 1 copy available
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Release date
January 11, 2022 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781250837479
- File size: 335199 KB
- Duration: 11:38:19
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Narrator Matt Godfrey portrays a pitch-perfect 16-year-old Matt Anthony, who is at the center of this coming-of-age mystery. The story is set in 1968 in Laguna Beach, California, a center of hippie culture. Matt is on a mission to find his older sister, Jazz, who has mysteriously disappeared. The author faithfully re-creates the Age of Aquarius, bringing in real places and people, like Timothy Leary, whom Godfrey gives credible voices. Matt is an amazingly responsible and level-headed young man who is growing up with a drug-dependent single mother. The tension surrounding his search for his sister loses its intensity as he's challenged to find his next meal and survive. Nevertheless, this audiobook is an engaging listen driven by the appeal of its young protagonist. E.Q. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
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