Recommended reading - To Live and Die in L.A. (1984):

To Live and Die in L.A.

By Gerald Petievich.

First published 1984.

Published by Pinnacle Books.

Mass Market Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0523423012

ISBN-13: 978-0523423012

Description:

The book that inspired the major motion picture.

“This is the real stuff. He’s not only a fine writer … his dialogue is pure entertainment.” – Elmore Leonard.

“A wham-bam thriller… vivid… proficient and sleek.” – Los Angeles Times.

To Live and Die in L.A. is a harrowing tale, which has become a major motion picture, of cult status, depicting the dark underside of America's "West Coast" metropolis.

Two U.S. Treasury agents, both partners and antagonists, are drawn into a matrix of violence and corruption, L.A. style, a journey through a sunlit hell. At the end, they become experts on the thin line which separates what it takes to live - and to die - in L.A.