Shades of James Crumley and early James Ellroy with unapologetically strong and muscular prose and an unapologetically strong and muscular hero, though he's also a formidable criminal scumbag who fell out with his bosses and while not exactly going straight and looking for redemption is determined to go his own way. This is why Isaiah Coleridge goes looking for a missing teenage girl and if he has to tear through a horde of hoodlums lowlives, crooked cops and feds to do it then tear through them he will. Big, bold, bloody and boisterous, unashamedly intellectual and a roaring tale of hardboiled violence from the master of cosmic horror.