I can't recommend this one unless you are on a mission to read every Tim Powers book. It is an interesting story and as usual, Powers comes up with clever supernatural elements woven into the regular world of L.A. with its endless series motels, strip malls, and homeless people. This will entertain you, to be sure, but it didn't satisfy me. I kept asking, "why? Why all the twists? Why am I reading this?" It could be that this genre of "Urban Fantasy" just isn't for me, though I keep trying.