White Jazz
James Ellroy / Jan 23, 2021
White Jazz Los Angeles 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

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.Klein s been hung out as bait, a bad cop to draw the heat, and the heaLos 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.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.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.Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering.
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James Ellroy
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948 His L.A Quartet novels The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A Confidential, and White Jazz were international best sellers His novel American Tabloid was Time magazine s Best Book fiction of 1995 his memoir, My Dark Places, was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996 His novel The Cold Six Thousand was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book for 2001 Ellroy lives in Los Angeles.Ellroy is known for a telegraphic writing style, which omits words other writers would consider necessary, and often features sentence fragments His books are noted for their dark humor and depiction of American authoritarianism Other hallmarks of his work include dense plotting and a relentlessly pessimistic worldview Ellroy has been called the Demon Dog of American crime fiction See also name nm0255278