Synopses & Reviews
In the tradition of Raymond Chandler's crime fiction comes this story of three tortured souls in the 1950s LAPD: a clean-cut cop who lives shivering in the shadow of his dad, his colleague who busts movie stars for payoffs from a sleazy magazine; and a detective haunted by the sight of his mother's murder. Intensity mounts as the novel's various plots intertwine more and more tightly, yet the narrative never veers too far from its core theme of cops competing with crooks to see who can be more corrupt and violent.
About the Author
James Ellroy is the author of the novels
American Tabloid,
The Big Nowhere,
The Black Dahlia,
The Cold Six Thousand,
Destination: Morgue! and
White Jazz, as well as the memoir
My Dark Places. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri.