Globe Pequot / TwoDot
Pages: 208
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4930-2844-3 • Paperback • November 2017 • $18.95 • (£14.99)
978-1-4930-2845-0 • eBook • November 2017 • $17.99 • (£13.99)
Subjects: History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY),
Travel / Essays & Travelogues,
Travel / United States / West / Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT, WY),
Travel / United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA)
Martin J. Smith is a journalist, magazine editor and winner of more than fifty newspaper and magazine writing awards. A former senior editor of The Los Angeles Times Magazine and former editor-in-chief of Orange Coast, the magazine of Orange County, Calif., he’s the author of five critically acclaimed suspense thrillers, including Time Release, Shadow Image, The Disappeared Girl, Straw Men, a 2002 Edgar Award nominee, and the more recent Combustion. He also has authored or co-authored three nonfiction books, including The Wild Duck Chase, upon which the award-winning 2016 documentary film “The Million Dollar Duck” is based, and with Patrick J. Kiger wrote two nonfiction books of pop-culture history, including Poplorica: A Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, and Lore That Shaped Modern America, and OOPS: 20 Life Lessons From the Fiascoes That Shaped America. After more than three decades as a journalist in Southern California, he currently lives and writes in Granby, Colorado.