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Los Angeles Fritz Brown, ex-alcoholic private eye with a stained past, makes do with car repossessions and classical music. Then he is offered a case by Freddy ''Fat Dog'' Baker, an eccentric golf caddy whose sister has made off with a much older man.

This is the beginning of the nightmare: the underworld of golf caddies, arson and incest played against the backdrop of an LA surreal by night and bad by day; of long-hidden secrets that will drive Brown back to the bottle and to the gun: all conspire to make this one of the most hypnotic crime novels ever written.



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The man who calls himself the "demon dog" of American crime fiction is still the classiest act around. * Daily Mail *
The outstanding American crime writer of his generation. * Independent *
Ellroy is a master at juggling plot lines, using a stripped, spare noir style that hits like a cleaver but is honed like a scalpel * Chicago Tribune *
An undeniably artful frenzy of violence, guilt and unappeased self-loathing. Ellroy's crime fiction represents a high mark in the genre * New York Newsday *

Browns Requiem

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      Publisher Cornerstone
      Published 11 January 2012
      ISBN-13 9780099558873
      978-0099558873
      ISBN-10 0099558874

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Los Angeles Fritz Brown, ex-alcoholic private eye with a stained past, makes do with car repossessions and classical music. Then he is offered a case by Freddy ''Fat Dog'' Baker, an eccentric golf caddy whose sister has made off with a much older man.

      This is the beginning of the nightmare: the underworld of golf caddies, arson and incest played against the backdrop of an LA surreal by night and bad by day; of long-hidden secrets that will drive Brown back to the bottle and to the gun: all conspire to make this one of the most hypnotic crime novels ever written.



      Trade Review
      The man who calls himself the "demon dog" of American crime fiction is still the classiest act around. * Daily Mail *
      The outstanding American crime writer of his generation. * Independent *
      Ellroy is a master at juggling plot lines, using a stripped, spare noir style that hits like a cleaver but is honed like a scalpel * Chicago Tribune *
      An undeniably artful frenzy of violence, guilt and unappeased self-loathing. Ellroy's crime fiction represents a high mark in the genre * New York Newsday *

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