Private eye Matt Cole is living the good life. He is married, has a baby son and his detective agency is prospering. But when he and his new female assistant delve into the case of a missing chorus girl, they soon discover that the case involves corruption that goes all the way up to city hall. Suddenly, they are thrust back into the seamy side of Los Angeles in the early 1950s with its crooked cops, organized crime, women of easy virtue, and powerful men of privilege who think they are above the law. Having to use all their skills just to survive, Matt and his partner battle for their lives in this, the most exciting Matt Cole adventure yet,