The second novel in the second of Ellroy's "L.A. Quartets", following on from 2014's "Perfidia". Dudley Smith is an army captain at this point in the extensive, expansive Ellroy mythology, working as a force for Japanese internment in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour. Desire, racial tension and murder play out across an array of characters. 'The master of American crime fiction' "The Sunday Times"