An enormous novel of World War II LA. The crowning function of the American master.

It is January, 1942. Torrential rainstorms strike L.A. A is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops price it a regular dead-man job. They’re grievously wrong. It’s a summons to misalliance and all of 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. Main of Law enforcement. Hideo Ashida is certainly a crime-lab whiz, swept up in the maelstrom of japan internment. Dudley Smith is an LAPD hardnose operating Army Cleverness. He’s gone rogue and eliminated all-the-way Fascist. Joan Conville was created rogue. She’s a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a battle profiteer to her core.

They’ve signed on for the dead-man work. They’ve got a sizzling date with History. They will fight their internal wars inside the Battle with unstoppable fury.