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1975. Only a few minutes old, a baby was forcibly taken from its devastated mother. 2010. The body of an elderly woman was found in a Dublin park in the middle of winter. Crucified and brutally defiled.
All that Victor Carl is aware of at the moment is that he woke up on a hard concrete slab floor in the outer lobby of the building where he lives.
A tipsy cabaret dancer from the Picratt nightclub entered the police station and excitedly announced that she had heard two men at the next table in the bar conspire to kill a countess, an unknown countess.
Attorney Victor Carl seems to have a nose for trouble, and sometimes it comes in the form of a ten thousand dollar check.
Klein is a typical Ellroy protagonist, a police lieutenant, a law graduate, a war veteran, and an underworld mercenary. A series of seemingly unrelated crimes and assignments will put his stamina and ingenuity to the ultimate test.