Money Men is the book that the movie Boiling Point was based on - often part of a two-novella volume, both based in Los Angeles.

To Die in Beverly Hills

Beverly Hills is the opulent setting for a confrontation between courage and corruption, as the wealthy are pitted against the underworld of have-nots desperate for a share of the spoils.

To Live and Die in L.A.

Two U.S. Treasury agents, partners, and mutual antagonists, became caught up in the flux of violence and corruption that defines the underside of the sprawling, sun-lit, southern California city. The basis for the marvelous movie with our second favorite chase scene...

Shakedown

Behind the sleazy glamour of the casinos is a world of crime and hustlers. One of its denizens is Eddie Sands, ex-cop, ex-con, a shakedown artist whose only weakness is that he's in love with a beautiful girl who just happens to be a con artist supreme herself.

When Eddie decides to shake down a famous Hollywood star whose sex life could get him blown off the screen, he sets off a chain of events that leads straight to the white-hot center of crime and punishment in Vegas, and brings down on himself the attention of FBI agent John Novak, a disillusioned law enforcement officer with bulldog tenacity, and Toney Parisi, the mob's kingpin in Vegas....

Novak's hunt takes him from the mansions of Beverly Hills to the seamy underbelly of Vegas, where prostitutes, informers, hitmen, scam artists--and their victims--mix in the neon glare.

Earth Angels

They saw themselves as the enterprising elite of the Los Angeles police, going up against the city's most vicious criminal element. Detective Sergeant Jose Stepanovich and his team--the toughest cops on the force, handed the toughest jobs. They would break the reign of terror of street gangs in East L.A. by whatever means necessary.

Except that it wasn't that simple. Because somewhere along the line they broke a few rules, as they took one savage step too far into the shadowland between the law and the lawless, turning a professional assignment into a personal vendetta. And suddenly it wasn't only the gangs they were fighting. It was the community, the media, and their own brass, who decided they were expendable.