King Maybe - Timothy Hallinan

Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender is in the middle of burgling a house when the job goes terribly wrong. After barely escaping, he sets off a chain reaction of blackmail, strong-arming and escalating crime. To pay off his underworld debts, Junior is forced to break into the house of the most powerful man in Hollywood; the shadowy, widely feared studio mogul known as King Maybe. This is the fifth in Timothy Hallinan''s Junior Bender Mystery series.