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Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950's-a town blinded to its own grime by Hollywood glitter; a society nourished by newspaper lies that wants its heroes all-American and squeaky clean. A chance to lead on a possible serial killing is all it takes to fuel Underhill's reckless ambition-and it propels him into a dangerous alliance with certain mad and unstable elements of the law enforcement hierarchy. When the case implodes with disastrous consequences, it is Fred Underhill who takes the fall. His life is in ruins, his promising future suddenly a dream of the past. And his good and pure love for a crusading woman lawyer has been corrupted and may not survive. But even without the authority of a badge, Fred Underhill knows that his only hope for redemption lies in following the investigation to its grim conclusion. And the Hell to which he has been consigned for his sins is the perfect place to hunt for a killer who hungers but has no soul.

Jeremy Gage trained in theater and has appeared in an assortment of repertory companies around the country. He has worked on National Public Radio's popular series The Sound of Writing, and he played professor Van Helsing in the sixteen-part radio broadcast serial of the Bram Stoker classic, Dracula. Jeremy is also a singer and guitarist. He lives in New York City.

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His LA Quartet novels-The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz-were international bestsellers. American Tabloid was Time's Novel of the Year for 1995, and his memoir My Dark Places was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996. He lives on the California coast.