L.A. Rex

"Abandon all hope ye who enter here." So reads the plaque over the door to the roll-call room of the 77th - the gut of South Central, the LAPD's most violent division. Here, Ben Halloran reports for his first day on the job, to all appearances just another fresh-faced recruit. Ben's hard-nosed partner, Marquez, smells something funny on this whiteboy rookie, who seems just a little too comfortable among the gangbangers, drug-slingers, and gangsta-rap gloryhounds to be quite who he says he is. But they're partners now, and with a string of Mexican Mafia drug dealers turning up dead - reportedly at the hands of corrupt cops - and L.A.'s most notorious gangster seeming to lose his grip on his empire, the City of Angels needs policing. As Ben and Marquez plunge into L.A.'s ultraviolent gangland swirl, L.A. Rex doesn't just unfold - it explodes, bristling with the energy and authenticity of the author’s experience as an LAPD officer in South Central.