The Big Nowhere

Los Angeles, 1950. Red crosscurrents: the Commie Scare and a string of brutal mutilation killings. Gangland intrigue and Hollywood sleaze. Three cops caught in a hellish web of ambition, perversion, and deceit.

Danny Upshaw is a sheriff s deputy stuck with a bunch of snuffs nobody cares about; they re his chance to make his name as a cop and to sate his darkest curiosities. Mal Considine is the DA s Bureau brass. He s climbing on the Red Scare bandwagon to advance his career and to gain custody of his adopted son, a child he saved from the horror of postwar Europe. Buzz Meeks bagman, ex-Narco goon, and pimp for Howard Hughes is fighting communism for the money.

All three men have purchased tickets to a nightmare. "