L.A. OUTLAWS
Los Angeles is gripped by the exploding celebrity of Allison Murietta,
her real identity unknown, a modern-day Jesse James with the compulsion
to steal beautiful things, the vanity to invite the media along, and the
conscience to donate much of her bounty to charity. Nobody ever gets
hurt - until a job ends with ten gangsters lying dead and a half-million
dollars worth of glittering diamonds missing. Rookie Deputy Charlie Hood
discovers the bodies, and he prevents an eyewitness - a schoolteacher
named Suzanne Jones - from leaving the scene in her Corvette. Drawn to a
mysterious charisma that has him off-balance from the beginning, Hood
begins an intense affair with Suzanne. As the media frenzy surrounding
Allison's exploits swells to a fever pitch and the Southland's most
notorious killer sets out after her, a glimmer of recognition blooms in
Hood, forcing him to choose between a deeply held sense of honor and a
passion that threatens to consume him completely. With a stone-cold
killer locked in relentless pursuit, Suzanne and Hood continue their
desperate dance around the secrets that brought them together, unsure
whether each new dawn may signal the day their lies catch up with them.
THE RENEGADES
Some say that outlaws no longer exist, that the true spirit of the
American West died with the legendary bandits of pulp novels and bedtime
stories. Charlie Hood knows that nothing could be further from the
truth. These days he patrols vast stretches of the new American West,
not on horseback but in his cruiser. The outlaws may not carry
six-shooters, but they're strapped all the same. Along the desolate and
dusty roads of this new frontier, Hood prefers to ride alone, and he
prefers to ride at night. At night, his headlights illuminate only the
patch of pavement ahead of him: all the better to hide from the
demons--and the dead outlaws--receding in his rearview mirror. But he
doesn't always get what he wants--certainly not when he's assigned a
partner named Terry Laws, a county veteran who everyone calls "Mr.
Wonderful." And not when Laws is shot dead in the passenger seat and
Hood is left to bear witness to someone who knew that Mr. Wonderful
didn't always live up to his nickname. As he sets out to find the
gunman, Hood knows one thing for sure: The West is a state of mind, one
where the bad guys sometimes wear white hats--and the good guys seek
justice in whatever shade of gray they can find it.
