In 1963 Los Angeles, Harry Ingram, a Black freelance information photographer, starts to suspect foul play when he develops footage of a deadly automobile crash that seem to expose tampering with the brake line. Harry’s snooping lands him within the crosshairs of employed killers for a white-supremacy workforce, however that gained’t forestall him. “One-Shot Harry” is fast moving, difficult, wry and sensible, however what makes this novel a novel sensation is the varied cityscape of mid-century L.A. that Phillips summons up.