There’s a new writer cruising the hot, hard streets of LA, and he ain’t here to play girlie games. Smith kicks out of the gate like a doped up thoroughbred in the fifth at Hollywood Park. Blending fresh characters, snappy patter, sex, a mind bender of a plot, and a little more sex, Smith has mixed up a killer cocktail of a first novel and given the LA crime scene a new paint job in the process.