I remember being quite disappointed in this when it first came out because it was supposed to be some sort of sequel to Last Call, but seemed to have absolutely nothing to do with it. On rereading (relistening, actually) I find it is top-notch Powers. Haunted LA, full of ghosts and ghost-eaters, a young boy on the run with the ghost of Thomas Edison, a tramp electrician whose sister just killed herself drawn back to the place where they grew up and later worked together for a very strange woman, a psychiatrist whose group therapy 'seance' ended in fire and death two years before looking for expiation, and a giant fish washes up on a beach with a secret passenger on board. The plot unfolds, twists and turns, the strange milieu and quasi-science of the ghosts drives the story and the characters and it all ends up in a specatcular climax aboard the Queen Mary. Delighted younger me was proved wrong.