L.A Nocturne

Abstract

Abstract It’s 1984, Los Angeles is on the brink of celebrating the Olympics, and Tony Coletta just got out of San Quentin. Ex Malibu surfer, ex-Vietnam Long Range Scout, ex-psychedelic enthusiast, Tony went inside after a very bad day in 1977. Now, he’s stepping out into a strange new world of neon, new wave, greed and “pro-active” policing. Gone are the easy beach days of the 70s. In these go-go 80s, everyone’s on the hustle, everyone’s making deals and the LAPD is hell bent on “cleaning up the streets”. These are the opening chapters of LA Nocturne, the first novel in a series featuring Tony Coletta, “just a guy from Malibu” who finds himself pulling the threads on some of the most earth-shattering events in Los Angeles and American history. From the 80s Olympics to the 90s riots and the rise of a rogue element in the LAPD, Tony’s adventures capture the strange unreality of the city of the Angels and the striving energy that endures as the city morphs and grows, mimicking the evolution of America itself.