Set in 1981 Los Angeles — months after Crash’s death — the story revolves around a fictional character named Rockets Redglare (no connection to the late actor of that name). A discarded kid, Rockets found a home among the misfits drawn to the Masque, basement club epicenter of the nascent L.A. punk scene. Over the course of the book’s 24 hours, Rockets and his crew of Hollywood...