BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS' newest hit series, THE FADE OUT is an epic noirset in the world of noir itself, the backlots and bars of Hollywood at the endof its Golden Era. A movie stuck in endless reshoots, a writer damaged from thewar and lost in the bottle, a dead movie star and the lookalike hired to replaceher. Nothing is what it seems in the place where only lies are true.

Thesecond act of BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS' biggest hit ever begins with a bang!Someone knows who killed Valeria Sommers, but can our "heroes" find them withoutexposing themselves? And will their search lead them to answers they don't wantto find?