Publisher's Synopsis
Post Rodney King beatings and riots LA is a tinderbox of racial tension. When the body of a murdered Korean shop owner is discovered during the groundbreaking ceremony of what is intended to be part of the city's healing process, private eye, Ivan Monk get involved in the case. Percieved one minute as an Uncle Tom and the next as a militant black agitator, Monk perseveres to the bloody conclusion in which the only colour that matters is the green of cold hard cash.