Widespread Panic"The king of macho noir" returns to his most notorious character, Freddy Otash, in a high octane, daring story Freddy is an ex L. A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood and it got to him bad. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp and, most notably, the head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine. Welcome to the world of the malevolent monarch of the Hollywood underground a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming