[2] Writing for Out, Aaron Hamburger named it one of the top five books of 2005 and "a wild ride of a novel that careens through a fateful evening in L.A.'s punk scene.

"[3] What We Do Is Secret takes place in Los Angeles in 1981, six months after the death of Darby Crash (lead singer of the Germs).

Like a punk American Graffiti, the action occurs over the course of 24 hours,"as Rockets amps up for another night looking for tricks and scrounging a meal, Sex Pistols and X lyrics on repeat in his head...he’s come to a turning point–the scene is changing, and nothing’s as easy as it was when Darby brought him into the fold[4]."

Rockets is a throwaway kid, abandoned at birth by his junkie parents, and he found a home among the misfits drawn to the Masque, the basement epicenter of L.A.'s nascent punk scene.

When two gay tourists turn up looking for drugs and subsequently hire the crew to show them around L.A., Blitzer devises a scheme to get the money he and Rockets need to skip town and leave their lives on the Hollywood streets behind.