Newton Thornburg
Born in Harvey, Illinois, Thornburg graduated from the University of Iowa with a Fine Arts degree. He worked in a variety of jobs before devoting himself to writing full-time (or at least in tandem with his cattle farm in the Ozarks) in 1973. His 1976 novel Cutter and Bone was filmed in 1981 as Cutter's Way. The New York Times called Cutter and Bone "the best novel of its kind for ten years." Another novel-to film Beautiful Kate was filmed in Australia in 2009 and starred Bryan Brown and Ben Mendelsohn. It was directed by Rachel Ward, who is Bryan Brown's real-life wife. Thornburg died on May 9, 2011, a few days shy of his 82nd birthday.
1 Books Written
Foxy Reno was a young nymphet searching for the place sweet dreams come true. Crow was a tough, rootless drifter looking for a new start with his ex-cop, private-eye dad. In Los Angeles, everybody's searching for something... What they found was a seductive land of sleaze and porn and a pair of brutal sex murders that plunged them both into the dark underbelly of a sizzling hot city. Here corruption reached up into the circles of the super-rich. Here Crow and Reno's hunt for a killer made them players in a dangerous game of power and passion where terror took all, and losing was for keeps.