The Shelling of Beverly Hills — Martyn Burke

In this sequel to the critically acclaimed IVORY JOE, Christy is flung into a world as strange as the Amazon where she has studied the savage tribes bent on annihilating one another. Christy has arrived in Beverly Hills, a world where annihilation is usually accomplished by legal documents. From the depths of the mansion territory north of Sunset Boulevard, her sister Ruthie lives a life hilariously untouched by reality as it is understood in the rest of the world. Especially the world that begins to intrude when the old Clark Gable mansion goes up in smoke. But then as Ruthie says, "It was a teardown anyway. "