"A sculptor in the film studios, Hart St. James, wakes up with a bloody head next to Hollywood's most luminous film star. Kelly Moran is dead, her skull brutally crushed and her eyes taped open. The unlikely relationship between a movie star and a studio craftsman hass not survived their first night together. Why?
St James, a Vietnam veteran, is determined to find out who and why by following the slender, treacherous threads of a trail that ultimately leads to a professional assassin and the very inner workings of the federal government."
Even though the main character ends up in bed with the murder victim, there is very little sex in this book which I liked. The violence is not graphically described although it is definitely there, since some of the main clues in this case come from the way the victims are killed. Still, Hart St. James is a great character, flawed, luckily still alive, and smart enough to take on a very canny killer. This book is one of the better thrillers that I have read in a while, smart and gripping. Rating: 4
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