HUAC returns to Hollywood to take names and make headlines for the committee. Successful producer, Michael McGuire is in their cross-hairs. Declared uncooperative, McGuire's successful career is now in dire jeopardy. Los Angeles city fathers dream of bringing a professional ballclub to the city and lay plans for one of the greatest real estate bamboozles since the annexation of San Fernando Valley. Mexican neighborhoods are destroyed and families are uprooted, all in the name of progress. Allied Aircraft owner, James Hagen is on the run from a Senate subcommittee investigating financial improprieties during the War. Hoping to stay one step ahead of a government subpoena, Hagen beats all on Allied's missile program to save him and the company from destruction. Big bands are out and musician, Cosmo Turner can't get a steady gig to save his life. Turner takes a job managing a Mexican radio station where pay to play is the name of the game as rock-n-roll sweeps the nation by storm. Della Rio is a woman with a dark past who seeks revenge against the men responsible for her brother's death. Rio puts a plan into play that will ruin the mob's drug running operation and destroy the men she hates. The Bear: California Dreamin' weaves a sweeping tapestry that brings these characters and their stories to an action-packed conclusion of the epic series.
Kerr gives his audience an action-packed conclusion to his epic "The Bear" series in this latest volume. Each of Kerr's books are stand-alone novels, but like anything the more one brings to the table the grander the journey. The story arc for this book stretches from the Senator McCarthy's HUAC hearings of the 1950's to just weeks before the Manson murders. Some critics have described this series as "Lonesome Dove" meets "The Godfather". Kerr doesn't disappoint. This is a novel with an insider's knowledge of Los Angeles politics and the machinations of Hollywood. I don't believe any other author has crafted a series of books that sets its action against the backdrop of California history. Two big thumbs up for this series and this action-packed novel.
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