Acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan follows Russell Poole, a highly
decorated LAPD detective who in 1997 was called to investigate a
controversial cop-on-cop shooting, eventually to discover that the
officer killed was tied to Marion "Suge" Knight's notorious gangsta rap
label, Death Row Records. During his investigation, Poole came to
realize that a growing cadre of black officers were allied not only with
Death Row, but with the murderous Bloods street gang. And incredibly,
Poole began to uncover evidence that at least some of these "gangsta
cops" may have been involved in the murders of rap superstars Notorious
B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur.
Igniting a firestorm of controversy in the music industry and the Los
Angeles media, the hardcover publication of LAbyrinth helped to prompt
two lawsuits against the LAPD (one brought by the widow and mother of
Notorious B.I.G., the other brought by Poole himself) that may finally
bring this story completely out of the shadows.