For other, it’s a city of last chances, a paradise on the edge of the desert. Playground for the rich, arena for the powerful, graveyard for the unlucky-welcome to Palm Springs!įor some, it’s the pleasure capital of the world. In his long-awaited new novel, best-selling author Joseph Wambaugh combines harrowing suspense, scathing humor, and a moving portrait of a man on the brink of self-destruction.

where death and chicanery flourish amidst ranches, mansions, and yachting parties. And Winnie Farlowe is a man willing to follow wherever she leads-straight into the juicy pulp of the Golden Orange, a world where money is everything, but nothing adds up. The coroner called it suicide, but to Tess it means the fear of her own fate. Nearly a year ago Tess Binder's father washed up on the beach with a bullet in his ear. She's a stunningly beautiful, sexually spirited three-time divorcee from Newport Beach-capital of California's Golden Orange, where wallets are fat, bikinis are skimpy, and cosmetic surgery is one sure way to a billionaire's bank account.

Never before has he come up against anyone like Tess Binder. Ever since, he's been fighting a bad back, fighting the bottle, fighting his conscience. When forty-year-old cop Winnie Farlowe lost his shield, he lost the only protection he had.

The Golden Orange by Joseph Wambaugh