A Chandler-esque noir detective tale featuring an ex-cop turned private eye set among the gritty motels and palatial estates of Los Angeles. Sullivan is depicted as a first-person narrator in the Philip Marlowe mold-a smart-mouthed shamus a gumshoe whos seen it all. Like Marlowe hes at heart a decent moral man in a world where such people are rare. At books end readers may wonder about Sullivans fate but they can take heart in the books subtitle: A Tom Sullivan Mystery. Sullys not going anywhere