California Rain [TRADE PAPER ]

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 the University of Southern California, 1991-2018. He has worked as a story analyst for four Hollywood production companies. McAdams is the author of The American War Film: History and Hollywood, (Praeger Publishers, 2002). He is also the co-author of Final Affair, a Berkley True Crime Book, 2002. His memoir, Vietnam Rough Riders: A Convoy Commander's Memoir, University Press of Kansas, was released in March 2013 and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in the Autobiography/Biography category. In September 2014 his novel Iris And The Gipper: The Tragic Love Story of George Gipp and Iris Trippeer was published by Kindle/Amazon. In 2010 he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at 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. He is listed in Who's Who in America, 2005-21.An investigative reporter uncovers a political, and racial, scandal, about a powerful Southern California family, set against the Hollywood Blacklist and the 1950 mid-term election.