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The L.A. Quartet - (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) by James Ellroy (Hardcover)

The L.A. Quartet - (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) by  James Ellroy (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>L.A. Confidential plumbs the depths: political corruption, scandal-rag journalism, racism and gangland wars, savage slaughter in an all-night hash house. And the inglorious Los Angeles Police Department to disentangle the conspiracy that links it all together.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Here in one volume is James Ellroy's first great body of work, an epic re-envisioning of postwar Los Angeles--etched in red and black and film-noir grays.</b> <p/><i>The Black Dahlia </i>depicts the secret infrastructure of L.A.'s most sensational murder case. A young cop morphs into obsessed lover and lust-crazed avenger. The Dahlia claims him. She is the deus ex machina of a boomtown in extremis. The cop's rogue investigation is a one-way ticket to hell. <p/><i>The Big Nowhere</i> blends the crime novel and the political novel. It is winter, 1950--and the L.A. County Grand Jury is out to slam movieland Reds. It's a reverential shuck--and the three cops assigned to the job are out to grab all the glory they can. A series of brutal sex killings intervenes, and the job goes all-the-way bad. <p/><i>L.A. Confidential </i>is <i>the</i> great novel of Los Angeles in the 1950s. Political corruption. Scandal-rag journalism. Bad racial juju and gangland wars. Six local stiffs slaughtered in an all-night hash house. The glorious and overreaching LAPD on an unprecedented scale. <p/><i>White Jazz</i> gives us the tortured confession of a corrupt cop going down for the count. He's a slumlord, a killer, a parasitic exploiter. He's a pawn in a series of police power plays and starting to see that he's being had. He's just met a woman. Thus, he's determined to claw his way out of the horrifying world he's created--and he's determined to tell us everything. <p/><i>The L.A. Quartet</i> is a groundbreaking work of American popular fiction.<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 <i>Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy</i>--<i>American Tabloid</i>, <i>The Cold Six Thousand</i>, and <i>Blood's A Rover</i>--and the <i>L.A. Quartet</i> novels, <i>The Black Dahlia</i>, <i>The Big Nowhere</i>, <i>L. A. Confidential</i>, and <i>White Jazz</i>. He lives in Colorado.

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