dares readers to ride along with Detectives Starnes and Rodriguez, veterans of the Los Angeles Police Department Organized Crime and Vice Division, as they practice a mercenary brand of policing fraught with violence, corruption, and richly deserved retribution. When they stumble upon a fledgling Japanese mafia clan attempting to establish a foothold in the "City of Angels," a deadly underground sword fighting ring is revealed and quickly becomes the catalyst for an apocalyptic con job involving kidnapping, duplicity, and a delightful dose of cannibalism. In teaming with Jake and Tancredo, two young impresarios oddly kindred in character and disposition, the "Devil's Quartet" is born, and the bullets fly in a denouement worthy of the appellation, "the ne plus ultra of comedic carnage."