# The Underground Man

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- Book: [The Underground Man](https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-macdonald/the-underground-man) ([The Underground Man.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-macdonald/the-underground-man.md))
- Authors: [Ross Macdonald](https://www.bookquiver.com/ross-macdonald)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4168-479-5
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2024-06-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Private Detective Lew Archer doesn’t believe in coincidences… A forest fire has mysteriously broken out in the hills above southern California. Meanwhile, Lew Archer has been asked by a desperate mother to find her six-year-old son. Instead, he discovers the boy’s wealthy father, murdered, and buried in a hole in the ground. The mystery will lead Archer to unearth a tragic, years-old history of abandonment, obsession and illusion, where the past won’t let go of the present – and everything is connected.