Best-selling crime fiction author James Ellroy returns with the fourth in his LA Quartet Los Angeles 1958 a city on the make A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder Lieutenant Dave Klein in turn a lawyer bagman slum landlord mob killer Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence & death will intersect He's a slumlord a bagman an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption & everything goes haywire Klein's been hung out as bait a bad cop to draw the heat & the heat's coming from all sides from local politicians from LAPD brass from racketeers & drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden For Klein forty-two & going on dead it's dues time