From 1941 to 1943 it was the Germans. Then it was the turn of the British. Come the Cold War, he''s conning McCarthy. Now he''s going head to head with the L.A. mob.

For high-stakes con artist Luis Cabrillo, once known as Eldorado, the million-dollar spy, trouble is never far away. And when he and his corker-of-a-New-Yorker squeeze, Julie Conroy, run into the cream of Los Angeles'' shady side, the result is a heady brew of disorganised crime, hot dollars, triple virgins and dead bodies in the begonias.

The fourth and final Luis Cabrillo novel is yet another fiendishly plotted rollercoaster ride of wit and wisecracking, as the Second World War''s most daring and audacious spy finds that old habits die hard, even in peacetime.