L.A. Summer '62 Freddy Otash is on the skids: Confidential magazine is dead, his PI licence is no more and he's wound up working for Eddie Fisher's divorce lawyer. Never far from scandal, Freddy finds himself at Fox studios, entangled in the Liz Taylor and Tim Burton Cleopatra affair. Meanwhile, he's hired by corrupt boss of the Teamsters' union, Jimmy Hoffa, to get the dirt on President Jack Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe... 8th June '62 The fateful night. Marilyn Monroe is missing from Peter Lawford's party. He rushes to her place to find her. She's in bed. She's dead. Peter picks up the phone and calls - who else? - Freddy Otash. 'You should get down here, General. Marilyn Monroe's dead.' Caught up in the warped world of a movie studio in extremis, over privileged film stars, craven politicians, drug dealers and Hollywood parasites - Freddy is back, and he's on a mission. But shadows of the dead are circling in, and when it all goes down - will he have solved the mystery of Marilyn's last living days? One thing's for sure - this case will have him chastened and changed, forever.