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NATIONAL BESTSELLER     
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Los Angeles. December, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. War fever and racial hatred grip the city.
 
The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. LAPD captain William H. Parker is superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious, liquored-up, and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith—Irish émigré, ex-IRA killer, fledgling war profiteer. Hideo Ashida is a police chemist and the only Japanese on the L.A. cop payroll. Kay Lake is a twenty-one-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. The investigation throws them together and rips them apart. The crime becomes a political storm center that brilliantly illuminates these four driven souls—comrades, rivals, lovers, history’s pawns.
 
Here, Ellroy gives us the party at the edge of the abyss and the precipice of America&rsqu

Perfidia

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      Publisher Random House USA Inc
      Published 7 July 2015
      ISBN-13 9780307946676
      978-0307946676
      ISBN-10 0307946673

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      NATIONAL BESTSELLER     
      AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

      Los Angeles. December, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. War fever and racial hatred grip the city.
       
      The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. LAPD captain William H. Parker is superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious, liquored-up, and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith—Irish émigré, ex-IRA killer, fledgling war profiteer. Hideo Ashida is a police chemist and the only Japanese on the L.A. cop payroll. Kay Lake is a twenty-one-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. The investigation throws them together and rips them apart. The crime becomes a political storm center that brilliantly illuminates these four driven souls—comrades, rivals, lovers, history’s pawns.
       
      Here, Ellroy gives us the party at the edge of the abyss and the precipice of America&rsqu

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