California Rain A Novel

Los Angeles, 1950: When New York investigative reporter, Mike Foyle, learns that his World War II combat buddy, Bernie Crusher, is dead of an "apparent suicide" he immediately suspects foul play. Arriving in Los Angeles to replace Crusher, who was reporting on the subcommittee of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Foyle is is faced with a mountain of roadblocks in picking up a winding, murderous, trail that leads to a scandalous Hollywood statutory rape trial and a dark secret about a powerful Southern California family. With colleague Kitty Chandler, Foyle is able to uncover Crusher's last moments that point to the historic 1950 mid-term California elections. Set against the infamous Hollywood Blacklist, California Rain is a noir break from the stereotypical homicide police investigation with a "twist" ending.

Frank McAdams is an award-winning screenwriter, teaching cinema studies at USC, 1991-2018. McAdams is the author of "The American War Film: History and Hollywood" and co-author of "Final Affair," a Berkley True Crime Book. His memoir, "Vietnam Rough Riders: A Convoy Commander's Memoir," University Press of Kansas, was released in 2013 and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Autobiography/Biography. In 2010 he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. He received a B.S. (History) from Loyola University, Chicago, and earned a Master of Fine Arts from UCLA.