L. A. Despair

Legendary noir author John Gilmore takes the reader on a mad, tumultuous all-night drive without remorse or pity, the high and low life of Hollywood and the City of Angels. Gilmore delivers a relentless panorama of sex, violence and death in five raw chronicles: Porn legend John Holmes and untouchable Los Angeles crime and drug impresario Eddie Nash--the unvarnished story of the sex-and-coke-laced Wonderland murders told from the inside out; "King of Western Swing" and early TV "fiddlin' cowboy" phenomenon Spade Cooley walks the line of nightmare, tragedy and murder; Hollywood's fallen angel…