Jeffrey Peter Bates

The Hollywood Eye Jeffrey Peter Bates

Hollywood is full of secrets. Some embarrassing. Some criminal. Some career-ending. And some are deadly. McNulty should know. He's a private investigator and secrets are his business. Never mind his first name. Nobody ever uses it. All you need to know is this: McNulty is the first call Hollywood makes when secrets need to be kept. Or when someone else's needs to be exposed. Welcome to the dark world of THE HOLLYWOOD EYE, a collection of short stories set within the gritty, sun-bleached surroundings of present day Hollywood, but with a distinctive film noir flavor. Stories that resurrect the pulp novel gumshoe genre for today's millennial audience. And like those old school private eyes, McNulty is blessed with the same knack for cracking wise, rescuing femme fatales, sifting through the debris of human failings, and raining two-fisted justice down on those who deserve it. Though he packs a .45-automatic, McNulty's weapon of choice is a sharp and often shady mind. For him, there's nothing more satisfying than running a short or long con on some Hollywood power player or a lowlife scumbag. And, as readers of THE HOLLYWOOD EYE will quickly discover, Hollywood has no shortage of either. True, McNulty's methods can be unorthodox. But, at the end of the day, wrongs will be righted, justice will prevail, and bad guys will get what's coming to them.