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Farlowe Investigations is hopping. A beautiful black heiress/cinematographer is kidnapped by organ harvesters. The only way to locate her is to offer a reward on the streets of Southern California- to criminals. The drug business, the movie business, police work, Los Angeles becomes even more mysterious in this sequel: who knows more? The Deputy Detective Chief of Beverly Hills, or Calvin Castle, the ex-con chief of all drug dealing in black LA, working from a card table in a back room in Little Japan downtown? Or is it in the offices of William Morris and 5-Star Studios? The Boyle Heights fortresses of the Mexican Mafia, the eMe? The mansions of Bel Air and Malibu, the society homes of Pasadena? The kidnapping is only the beginning of the road to self-discovery for Farlowe, Loni his beautiful secretary, Eb Taylor, the ex-NFL running back MVP sunk to homelessness after a career-ending illegal tackle; Valerie Chatham, the 75 year old alcoholic beauty who is den mother to Farlowe Investigations; her black boyfriend Calvin Castle; or Judge Maximum Mike Farlowe and his heiress wife Elizabeth, Henry's parents? Maybe it's the Yokusuka Brothers, Cal-Tech math whizzes? Or the love of Henry's life Lerena, a beautifull descendant of LA's original haciendistas; or the billionaire Colonel Compton, who is convinced the white world is being overrun by the darker races... and don't forget the original Dirty Blonde herself, Susie McIlhenny, and the fattest and most successful talent agent in Beverly Hills, Caprice Abramovitz. You will meet all of them and more, and in the end will never see Los Angeles in quite the same way.