Linda Vista

By Robert Thorp Lundahl

Linda Vista is an unvarnished cinematic memoir detailing one filmmaker's collision with the Cold War, the digital boom, and dark defense secrets. Written with the clinical, ground-truth lens of an Emmy Award-winning documentarian, this personal chronicle turns the camera completely inward to expose the hidden architectures of institutional power, psychological gravity, and generational survival.

The narrative tracks what director Robert Thorp Lundahl calls "The Pasadena Diaspora"-the gut-wrenching, David Lynch-style fracturing of a prominent post-war Southern California family and community. Moving across a highly charged American landscape from 1965 to 2003, the book charts a distinct timeline of escape and attempted escape through drugs, money, and structural defiance. From building a battleship-gray V6 engine swap behind a Pasadena swingset to navigating a cocaine-fueled backstage funk circus with Bootsy Collins at Madison Square Garden, the book strips away classic Hollywood clich s to deliver raw, lived reality.

As the timeline advances into the 2000s tech bubble, the narrative collides with the global software vanguard in China and the paranoid, foil-lined defense contractor vaults of New Mexico, where space weapons tracking and corporate environmental destruction reveal the true cost of modern empire. Concluding with a profound personal and domestic reckoning, Linda Vista is a powerful, dark, and deeply compelling exploration of the post-war American underbelly and the relentless pursuit of individual independence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H6PX82BR
• ISBN13: 9798240952227
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Agence
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"