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.

Joseph Wambaugh served 14 years with the Los Angeles Police Department during the 1960s and early '70s before leaving to become a full time writer of award winning police and crime stories. He has written 16 bestsellers, five of which are non-fiction. Eight of his books have been feature films, mini-series or TV movies, some of which he adapted.