White Jazz
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cornerstone
Published:2nd Jun '11
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
Best-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...
A 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 *
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 * The News and Observer *
The most original crime writer of our time * Spectator *
James Ellroy is a genius: the finest American crime writer since Raymond Chandler, and one of the most readable experimental writers in the world * Times Literary Supplement *
Without him and his crime fiction, there's no David Peace or The Sopranos or Ian Rankin or The Wire or the work of countless writers and film makers who saw a different way of doing things when they first cracked the spine on an Ellroy * GQ *
ISBN: 9780099537892
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 26mm
Weight: 288g
416 pages