Hollywood sells dreams. Mase McKnight makes nightmares disappear.
Los Angeles, 1945. Mason "Mase" McKnight is a private detective and fixer for Premiere Pictures, cleaning up the scandals the studio can't afford to see in the papers.
In Hollywood, everybody has something to hide-including Mase. And he knows where most of the bodies are buried.
Sometimes because he helped put them there.
When a naked dead man turns up in the bungalow of a rising young Western star, Mase's powerful uncle and boss, Eddie Behr, orders him to make the problem go away.
Then Premiere's biggest movie star, Dina Leigh, disappears. And her six-year-old son, David, is kidnapped.
Suddenly Mase isn't protecting a studio. He's hunting for a missing child.
And he may have to dismantle Tinseltown to find him.
Down mean streets and into movie-star mansions, across studio backlots and through smoky jazz clubs, from an abandoned motor court among the orange groves to the precipice of Point Dume high above the Pacific . . .
In a city built on illusion, some truths are dangerous enough to kill for.