White Jazz - by James Ellroy (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia</b>. <p/>Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. 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. <p/>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. <p/>Klein tells his own story--his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing--taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive. <p/>Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, <b>White Jazz</b> is crime fiction at its most shattering.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>LOS ANGELES, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns -- it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. 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.<P>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.<P>Klein tells his own story -- his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing -- taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive.<P>Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"One of the great American writers of our time." --<i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i> <p/>"<b>White Jazz</b> makes previous detective fiction read like Dr. Seuss." --<i>San Francisco Examiner</i> <p/>"Riffling, rolling, reeling. . . . Ellroy's best." --<i>The Denver Post</i> <p/>"Riveting. . . . Impossible to put down. . . . An author who breaks all the rules. He's a kamikaze pilot on a collision course with hell. The pen moves madly across the page. . . . A book that is one long scream of rage and emptiness and longing." --<i>The News and Observer</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the L.A. Quartet: <i> The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, </i> and <i>White Jazz, </i>and the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: <i>American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, </i>and <i>Blood's A Rover.</i> These seven novels have won numerous honors and were international best sellers. He is also the author of two collections, <i>Crime Wave</i> and <i>Destination: Morgue!</i> and two memoirs <i>My Dark Places</i> and <i>The Hilliker Curse</i>. Ellroy currently lives in Denver, Colorado. <p/>www.jamesellroy.net
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