Jason, Robert, and Martin, three nonconconformist Long Beach, CA, buddies, agree to watch over a wasted-by-drugs rock star's threatened daughter. A ponytailed technomusic composer, an extra-tall Jewish part-time actor, and a short, dark-skinned former drug addict, the three nevertheless share a laid-back, off-the-wall lifestyle, a strong sense of ethics, a wicked sense of humor, and mutual loyalty. As the "boys" play baby-sitter but fail to foil murder and kidnapping, they get grief at the hands of the child's noncustodial mother and others. Snyder's (Coffins' Got the Dead Guy on the Inside) latest Jason Keltner mystery is a riot to read, with clever, sometimes graphic remarks. Strongly recommended.