Freddy is an ex-l.a. cop on the skids. he snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. now he''s a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the head strongarm goon for confidential magazine. welcome to the world of the malevolent monarch of the hollywood underground - a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, fbi finks, celebrity smut films and strange bedfellows.