Big Rock Beat

Book excerpt: It's 1967, ten years after legendary B movie director Landis Woodley's cult horror Cadaver. Now Woodley is shooting a rock-and-roll movie, and producer Sol Kravitz introduces Woodley to Tijuana financier Hector Diablo, who invests money in the movie with the proviso that James Dean's death car, which he has rebuilt and named The Impresser, has a starring role. But something else is not in the script. Sol is the first to die. Then others. And payback's a bitch.