" Can you set her down at Burbank? I want to ask some questions.” “I’m going to.” The summer heat of the valley came up to meet us as we circled in. Heat lay like a fine ash on the rubbish lots and fields and half-built suburbs, slowing the tiny cars on the roads and boulevards, clogging the air. "

― Ross Macdonald , The Moving Target (Lew Archer #1)