Los Angeles, in 1958 is a city on the make. It is a boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. Lieutenant Dave Klein is in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord, mob killer. He stands at the centre of a complex web of plots, where violence and death intersect.
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