Dick Contino - 50s accordian player, a star in the making, is destroyed by a draft-dodging scandal. His life is on the skids until he comes up with the idea of resurrecting his career with a fake kidnapping scam.
meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose in Los Angeles...a killer who is closer to Contino than he suspects - a killer who wants in on the kidnap - for real...
Plus five previously unpublished short stories.
Publisher: Cornerstone
ISBN: 9780099410119
Number of pages: 176
Weight: 129 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 12 mm
The outstanding American crime-writer of his generation - Peter Gutteridge, Independent
James Ellroy writes like a man possessed about men possessed - David Pascoe, Modern Review
Not since the days of Hammett and Chandler has the crime novel been so eloquent and seductive - VOX
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