A nightmare killer is loose in the land of dreams... A murder/robbery on a stretch of beach just south of Laguna. A gang killing in Santa Ana. A young woman gunned down taking out the garbage. A high school track star shot during a dawn workout. A cook killed after work. A computer salesman found dead in a parking lot. A half dozen murders in the last month - unnoticed and unsolved. Like the note said. An anonymous note to investigative reporter Jimmy Gage from someone calling himself 'The Eggman' claiming the killings and threatening to come after Jimmy. Is it a hoaxer? The police think so, apart from Detective Jane Holt - assigned to the case but pulled off it. But Jimmy is driven to discover the identity of the serial killer no matter where the search takes him and it takes him right into the heart of danger.

Death stalks the City of Angels... 'This scavenger hunt of yours... I played that game when I was a kid. Knocking on doors, asking for treasure and trash, and it's all the same to you. Well, open your eyes, tough guy, you stumbled on to something big here.' Walsh clawed at Jimmy Cage's arm. 'Put me on the cover of SLAP, play it up big - ' Jimmy shook him off. 'I've been hustled by the best, Walsh, and this ancient mariner routine of yours is stale. Hire a press agent if you want publicity.' 'You're killing me.' Walsh stared out of the window, his face slack. 'You're killing me and you don't even know it.' An American thriller set in California in the world of Hollywood. A hot, young Tarantino type movie director has just been released from prison after serving a jail sentence for the rape and murder of a young girl. But as Jimmy Cage, a reporter on SLAP magazine discovers, he was set up as an act of revenge. Several deaths and threats to his own life later, Jimmy works out who set him up and why.