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Book SynopsisBest-selling crime fiction author James Ellroy returns with the fourth in his LA Quartet.
Los Angeles, 1958: a city on the make. A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder.
Lieutenant Dave Klein: in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord, mob killer. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence and death will intersect. He''s a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.
Klein''s been hung out as bait, a bad cop to draw the heat, and the heat''s coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, forty-two and going on dead, it''s dues time...
Trade ReviewA vivid, enthralling read... James Ellroy is the outstanding American crime writer of his generation * Independent *
Recent novels by the likes of Carl Hiassen, Andrew Vachss and George V Higgins have at best been treading water. James Ellroy may be the exception. He seems in less danger of burnout than of going supernova * New Statesman and Society *
One of the great American writers of our time * Los Angeles Times Book Review *
White Jazz makes previous detective fiction read like Dr. Seuss * San Francisco Examiner *
Riffling, rolling, reeling . . . Ellroy's best * The Denver Post *
