Already Dead
Subtitle: A California Gothic
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: June 10, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780060929091
First sentence: "Van Ness felt a gladness and wonder as he drove past the small isolated towns along U.S. 101 in Northern California, a certain interest, a yearning, because he sensed they were places a person could disappear into."
Description: Nelson Fairchild Jr., disenfranchised scion to a northern California land fortune, has botched nearly every scheme he's attempted to pull off. Now his future lies in a potentially profitable marijuana patch hidden in the lush old-growth redwoods on the family land.