A massive novel of World War II Los Angeles. The crowning work of an American master.
It is January 1942. Torrential rainstorms hit LA. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops rate it a routine dead-man job. They're grievously wrong. It's a summons to misalliance and all the spoils of a brand-new war.
Elmer Jackson is a corrupt vice cop. He's a flesh peddler and a bagman for the LA chief of police. Hideo Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, caught up in the maelstrom of the Japanese internment. Dudley Smith is an LAPD hardnose working army intelligence. He's gone rogue and gone all-the-way Fascist. Joan Conville was born rogue. She's a defrocked navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core.
They've signed on for the dead-man job. They've got a hot date with history. They will fight their inner wars within The War with unstoppable fury.
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