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A massive novel of World War II Los Angeles. The crowning work of an American master.

It is January, 1942. Torrential rainstorms hit L.A. 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 L.A. 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.