When celebrity biographer Randall Capri writes a lurid and unauthorized bio of the late Rod Preston, a virile movie star of the fifties and sixties, it sets in motion a deadly chain of events. Prestonβs naive daughter, Charlotte, hires Benjamin Justice to turn the tables on Capri by ghost writing an expose of him, while salvaging her fatherβs good name. After finding Charlotte dead, an apparent suicide, Justice begins to have his doubts about how she died. Working with reporter Alexandra Templeton, his investigation takes him from the wealthy hillside enclaves of Montecito to the gay bars of Tijuana as he searches for the truthβand a young witness named Chucho Pernales, who has fled back to Mexico in fear for his life. Along the way, Justice stumbles into a ring of wealthy Hollywood pedophiles, who use young boys as dispensable toysβa group of men connected to the late Rod Preston, and possibly to Charlotte Prestonβs death. When Randall Capri is also murdered, Justice himself becomes a suspect. While he copes with a life-threatening health crisis, becoming desperately weak, his search for the killer propels him behind the locked gates of a mysterious compound in the remote California desertβand to evidence of evil so chilling, it makes his blood run cold. Reprint.