Los Angeles was not a place, but a mental state, the mental state of a
severely deranged person. Wulff hated it. Los Angeles and New York were
nominally both American cities, but while New York was a great,
steaming, dying beast, Los Angeles was merely vapor. Wulff was marked,
but he was marked for Calabrese. He was Calabrese's game, Wulff was -
Wulff and his two million dollar cargo.
Wulff was scheduled for killing, and it might as well happen in this
cheap rooming house for unemployed actors in this suburb in a city that
was all suburbs at the ragged-ass end of the continent....