On 11th January, 1947 in Los Angeles, a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops embark on a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl's twisted life.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americansbut now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins. The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. William H. Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police Department. Hes superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious, liquored-up, and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley SmithIrish emigre, ex-IRA killer, fledgling war profiteer. Hideo Ashida is a police chemist and the only Japanese on the L.A. cop payroll. Kay Lake is a twenty-one-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. The investigation throws them together and rips them apart. The crime becomes a political storm center that brilliantly illuminates these four driven soulscomrades, rivals, lovers, historys pawns. Perfidia is a novel of astonishments. It is World War II as you have never seen it, and Los Angeles as James Ellroy has never written it before. Here, he gives us the party at the edge of the abyss and the precipice of Americas ascendance. Perfidia is that moment, spellbindingly captured. It beckons us to solve a great crime that, in its turn, explicates the crime of war itself. It is a great American novel. From the Hardcover edition.
"Perfidia" inaugure le second Quatuor de Los Angeles, prélude au premier, encore plus ambitieux et qui reprend ses personnages devenus célébrissimes à l'époque de leur jeunesse.
Political noir as only Ellroy can write it, "Blood's A Rover" is a novel of astonishing depth and scope, a massive tale of corruption and retribution, of ideals at war and the extremity of love. Set in the tumultuous year of 1968, this novel is the largest and greatest work of fiction by an American master--the wild, startling and much-anticipated conclusion to his Underworld USA trilogy. Political noir as only Ellroy can write it, "Blood's A Rover" is a novel of astonishing depth and scope, a massive tale of corruption and retribution, of ideals at war and the extremity of love. Set in the tumultuous year of 1968, this novel is the largest and greatest work of fiction by an American master--the wild, startling and much-anticipated conclusion to his Underworld USA trilogy. Hide
Los Ángeles, años cincuenta. Tres hombres se ven atrapados en una red de ambiciones, perversión y mentiras: Danny Upshaw, ayudante del sheriff y punto de mira de intereses espurios; Mal Considine, fiscal del distrito que intenta promocionarse profesionalmente y poner orden en su vida privada, y Meeks, ex narco y hombre fiel a un unico dios: el dinero. Por motivos distintos, los tres se veran vinculados a un grupo de comunistas entre los que un sadico asesino ha sembrado el panico.
Dallas, November '63 - the heart of the American Dream detonated. Wayne Tedrow Jr., a young Vegas cop, arrives with a loathsome job to do. He's got six thousand in cash and no idea he is about to plunge into the cover-up conspiracy already brewing around the assassination of JFK, no idea that this will mark the beginning of a hellish five-year ride through the private underbelly of public policy. Ellroy's furiously paced narrative tracks Tedrow's journey: Dallas to Vega, with the Mob and Howard Hughes, south with the Klan and J. Edgar Hoover, shipping out to Vietnam and returning home, the bearer of white powder, plotting new deaths as 1968 approaches. . . The Cold Six Thousand is the 1960s under Ellroy's blistering lens, the icons of the era mingling with cops, killers, hoods, and provocateurs. Historical confluence as American nightmare. Fierce, epic fiction. A masterpiece.
Dallas, Tejas, 22 de noviembre de 1963. El día del asesinato de Kennedy llega a la ciudad un agente del FBI, Wayne Tedrow Jr., con 6.000 dólares en el bolsillo y la misión de cargarse a Durfee, un jugador negro acusado de violación y asesinato. El ambiente político y social está al rojo vivo, y hay muchas preguntas en el aire: ¿está el Ku Klux Klan involucrado en la muerte del presidente? ¿Cuáles son las relaciones del KKK con el FBI? ¿Conspiraron la mafia y el FBI para matar a Robert Kennedy y Martin Luther King? ¿Cómo se relacionan el FBI, la droga y el anticastrismo? Seis de los grandes nos lleva de Estados Unidos a Vietnam, mostrando al lector el resquebrajamiento de un sueño, empujándolo al meollo de la pesadilla americana.
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L. A. P. D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers.
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L. A. P. D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers.
