Ellroy writes with raw power undeniably one of the most influential crime writers of our time THE TIMESa tangled feverdream Ellroy offers a grandiose, Wagnerian vision of wartime LA SUNDAY TIMESA brilliant historical crime novel, set in Los Angeles and Mexico during the pulsepounding aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor.January, 42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops tag it a routine deadman job. Theyre wrong. Its an earlywarning signal of Chaos. Theres a murderous fire and a gold heist exploding out of the past. Theres Fifth Column treason at this moment, on American soil. There are homegrown Nazis, commies and race racketeers. Theres two dead cops in a dive off the jazzclub strip. And three men and one woman have a hot date with History. Elmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop. Hes a flesh peddler and a bagman for the L.A. Chief of Police. Hideo Ashida is a crimelab whiz, lashed by antiJapanese rage. Dudley Smith is a PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. Hes gone rogue and gone alltheway fascist. Joan Conville was born rogue. Shes a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core. L.A., 42. Homefront madness ascendant. Earlywartime inferno This Storm is James Ellroys most audacious novel yet. It is by turns savage, tender, elegiac. It lays bare and celebrates crazed Americans of all stripes.Epic crime writing from...

Binding: Paperback;608 pages; Publisher: Cornerstone; Classification: FA; Weight: 542 g; Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 38

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