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“A well-designed flashback to a tie-dyed time.”
— Wall Street Journal
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“Will entrance you with its ‘60s vibe and backdrop and captivate you with its engaging storytelling.”
— USA Today
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“A rousing standalone novel that is as much a coming-of-age tale as it is a mystery.”
— South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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“A telling perspective on the people who used youth culture to traffic drugs…and a portrait of a Southern California town in the throes of substantial societal change.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“A Thousand Steps…might be his crowning achievement.”
— Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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“Talk about great writing. This novel…is evocative, elegiac, extraordinary.”
— Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author
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“Pick up A Thousand Steps, and journey to a California that only Parker could deliver with such vibrancy and verve.”
— John Hart, New York Times bestselling author
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"This twisty tale of teen’s desperate plan to save his sister and right his off-keel family is a compelling coming-of-age thriller that will entrance you with its ‘60s vibe and backdrop, and captivate you with its engaging storytelling and a believable cast of characters –including one heroic kid you can’t help but to root for.
— USA Today
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A unique thriller and also a coming-of-age story: the not-so-sentimental education of an impressionable teen. Mr. Parker has given us a well-designed flashback to a tie-dyed time that in some ways seems like the day before yesterday and in others feels like a century ago.
— Wall Street Journal
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As powerful as a riptide in summer...A Thousand Steps reopens for our reconsideration the consequences of clashes between authority and freedom, order and chaos, that persist to this day — and the innocents that will always get caught in the tumult.
— Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Parker already has two or three titles on my all-time best-ever list. . . and now comes A Thousand Steps, which might be his crowning achievement. It's a great story and a nuanced look at the nation in 1968, and above all it proves no one inhabits character as completely and intensely—Matt Anthony is a changing boy in a changing time, and you won't ever forget him.
— Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series
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A rousing standalone novel that is as much a coming-of-age tale as it is a mystery.
— South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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T. Jefferson Parker is the poet of American crime fiction. . . There’s a damned good reason he has won three Edgar Awards.
— C.J. Box, New York Times bestselling author of Blue Heaven
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A brave and daring writer.
— Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of Shanghai Girls
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Parker ranks as one of the top contemporary suspense writers.
— Publishers Weekly
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As much sensitive coming-of-age novel as it is edgy thriller...Parker juggles hisdisparate elements superbly.
— Booklist
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If there’s a better mystery writer around . . . well, there isn’t.
— San Diego Union Tribune