A cheap hooker named Missy Moonbeam takes a fatal dive from
the roof of a sleazy hotel. But what's a Caltech phone
number doing in her trick book? And how does that connect to
a dead private eye and a useless credit card? And what does
all that have to do with a Whisky-class Russian sub and the
Nobel Prize?n
nJoin Joseph Wambaugh's ravaged cops of
Rampart Station as they follow a trail of corruption from
the world of pimps and crazies to the think-tank labs of the
country's top chemistry wizards - where genius and greed mix
to create an award-winning case of murder.