Joseph Wambaugh

Hollywood cop Nate Weiss agrees to help Margot Aziz protect her fortune, her son, and herself from her soon-to-be-ex husband, strip club owner Ali Aziz, but soon suspects Margot might not be as innocent as she wants

Dewey Gleason, a master of disguise, conducts a series of lucrative and surreptitious thefts while inspiring fear in his own henchmen, and when Los Angeles police officers "Hollywood Nate" Weiss and Dana Vaughn pursue a prowler who is preying on women, two surfer cops named Flotsam and Jetsam stumble upon a vast, high-tech criminal scheme.