Joseph Wambaugh

Hollywood Moon Joseph Wambaugh

There s a saying at Hollywood Station that the full moon rising over the city brings out the beast rather than the best in its citizens. And in Hollywood, playground of transvestite hustlers, drug-crazed tweakers, and aspiring actors sometimes criminally desperate for fame, that s saying something. LAPD veteran Dana Vaughn and Hollywood Nate Weiss, a struggling-actor-turned-cop, are hot on the trail of a man they suspect to be the perpetrator of a series of violent attacks on women. Meanwhile, two surfer cops known as Flotsam and Jetsam keep bumping into a pair of suspicious characters they ve got pegged as petty criminals. No one suspects that they might be involved in something bigger, more high-tech, and much more illegal.

After a dizzying series of twists, turns, and chases, the cops will find they ve stumbled onto a complex web of crime where even the criminals aren t quite sure who s conning whom. "