Marina Man - A Southern California Novel of Crime and Confusion — Jonathan Schwartz

Marina del Rey Attorney Tom McGuire must defend his client against a charge of carjacking and murder, rescue a proctologist-turned-plastic surgeon, and battle with a government administrator of the Federal Witness Protection Program.
Tom also runs into a modern-day Indian tribe that inhabits a high-rise office building, and some militant environmentalists who have unique methods of combating a Malibu real estate development.