A psycho haunts the hills of Hollywood....It's 1961. The Berlin Wall goes up, the Bay of Pigs invasion flops, punks cruise the Boulevard with their tops down blasting Chubby Checker's "Pony Time," and women are being savagely bothered on LAPD cop Mike Montego's beat. Something's got to give, and it won't be Montego.

Young, eager LAPD cop Mike Montego has to deal with a series of art thefts, crooked cops, a passionate, complicated girlfriend, kinky sex, and bloody mayhem. After all, it's Hollywood in the early '60s.

Old mobsters never die. . . . It's Hollywood in the early '60s. Men are brash, women are brassy, and cars are big. Plainclothes cop Mike Montego has a problem, and his name is Neall Haley, who happens to be Montego's new partner. Something's very wrong, and Montego needs to find out what, fast, before someone gets hurt--him

Mike Montego, a newly appointed homicide detective assigned to Hollywood Division responds to a crime scene where the wife, Brenda Mackay, has fatally shot her husband, Coyle. She claims she was afraid her husband would beat their oldest son, Kirk, to death. The mother of four, one an infant girl, Brenda claims Coyle was drunk and she had to protect her children. Montego's senior partner tells him it's "open and shut" and to quickly write it up and then file the case with the District Attorney. Montego, however, has a different take on the facts and continues to investigate, including...