Welcome to Los Angeles. The city that sleeps with one eye open. Enjoy the hot Santa Ana breeze while you sip your tequila. Take a stroll down Sunset Boulevard. Dip your toes in Echo Park lake. Walk down Raymond Chandler's mean streets. Meet your new neighbors: A rising star defense attorney with self doubts. A dinosaur LAPD detective resistant to change. A beat cop with anger control issues. A drifter who is easily led astray. And two brothers with extra bad luck. And of course, the city itself. The City of Angels. La-La Land. Los Angeles. A collection of 5 stories from the Mean Streets of...

Vortex is a mystery crime thriller about an Afghanistan war vet returning to his hometown of Los Angeles only to find he faces more danger at home than he did in the war. Zach Tanner is on the run. He can run from the war, but he can't run from himself. Zach and his girlfriend, Jess, careen down Sunset Boulevard, trying to get away from a red Camaro that's hot on their tale. But it's hard to get away from your best friends, who think you've stolen their spoils of war.