Beneath the slick glittering surface of L.A. an underworld of depravity and wickedness reins.
Fritz Brown is a part-time private eye and full-time repo-man who gets his kicks listening to
classical music. But the waters get too deep for Brown when he takes a case from a
cash-flashing golf caddy named Freddy Fat Dog Baker that puts him on the trail of his client s
sister and the older gentleman she s run off with. But more suspicious than his sister a
classy cellist is Fat Dog himself who has a past more sordid than he lets on. Diving into a
cesspool of payoffs incest and arson Brown s California dreaming transforms into a
technicolor nightmare. In his hypnotic debut master crime writer James Ellroy takes us to the
edge of an abyss where nothing not even Beethoven can let in the light.
