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From 'one of the great American writers of our time' (Los Angeles Times Book Review) a brilliant historical crime novel, a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles and Mexico in the wake in 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 dead-man job. Theyre wrong. Its an early-warning 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 jazz-club 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 crime-lab whiz, lashed by anti-Japanese rage. Dudley Smith is a PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. Hes gone rogue and gone all-the-way fascist. Joan Conville was born rogue. Shes a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core.

________________________Ellroy writes with raw power a undeniably one of the most influential crime writers of our time THE TIMESa tangled fever-dream a Ellroy offers a grandiose, Wagnerian vision of wartime LA SUNDAY TIMES________________________A brilliant historical crime novel, set in Los Angeles and Mexico during the pulse-pounding aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor.January, a42. 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 dead-man job. Theyare wrong. Itas an early-warning signal of Chaos. Thereas a murderous fire and a gold heist exploding out of the past. Thereas Fifth Column treason a at this moment, on American soil. There are homegrown Nazis, commies and race racketeers. Thereas two dead cops in a dive off the jazz-club strip. And three men and one woman have a hot date with History. Elmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop. Heas a flesh peddler and a bagman for the L.A. Chief of Police. Hideo Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, lashed by anti-Japanese rage. Dudley Smith is a PD hardnose work

El primer volumen del segundo Cuarteto de Los Angeles: un regreso epico y salvaje al universo de La Dalia negra y L.A. Confidential, durante los años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Seis de diciembre de 1941. Estados Unidos se encuentra al borde de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La ultima esperanza de paz salta por los aires cuando los escuadrones japoneses bombardean Pearl Harbor. Hasta ese momento, Los Çngeles ha sido un refugio inestable para los ciudadanos americanos de origen japones, pero ahora la locura de la guerra y una creciente escalada de rencor se apoderan de la ciudad. En este ambiente de miedo y sospecha, el hallazgo de los cuerpos sin vida de una familia nipona de clase media pondra sobre el tablero a una multitud de personajes: el astuto y ambicioso capitan del departamento de policia William H. Parker, el brillante quimico forense japones Hideo Ashida, una jovencisima y atrevida Kay Lake, el ex boxeador Lee Blanchard, el policia Bucky Bleichart y el detective de homicidios irlandes Dudley Smith, todos ellos viejos conocidos de las novelas anteriores de Ellroy. Con este libro, Ellroy regresa a los escenarios de su ciudad natal y al universo de su ya legendario Cuarteto de

There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of public policy via Las Vegas, Howard Hughes, Vietnam, CIA dope dealing, Cuba, sleazy showbiz, racism and the Klan. This is the 1960s under Ellroys blistering lens, the icons of the era mingled with cops, killers, hoods, and provocateurs.

A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Years Eve as 1949 turns to 1950, Los Angeles: The City of Angels has becomes the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community.

One of the best (and longest) crime novels ever written, it is the heart of Ellroys four-novel masterpiece, the LA Quartet, and an example of crime writing at its most powerful.

Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire. Kleins been hung out as bait, "a bad cop to draw the heat," and the heats 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.

Det. Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins is the most brilliant homicide detective in the Los Angeles Police Department. A thinking cop in a brutal world, hunting down monsters has, for him, gone from occupational hazard to obsession.In Blood on the Moon, twenty random killings remain unconnected in police files.

Los Ángeles, años cincuenta, una época fascinante llena de matices. Pornografía. Corrupción policial. Intrigas en el hampa. Un atroz asesinato colectivo se convierte en eje central de la vida de las victimas y los verdugos. Tres policias tambaleandose en arenas movedizas Ed Exley, sediento de gloria, capaz de violar cualquier ley con tal de eclipsar a su padre, ex policia y gran magnate.

James Ellroy is acknowledged as one of America's greatest living writers. As well as his critically acclaimed novels, he is a regular contributor to GQ magazine in the States. This collection will contain sixteen of these pieces, both autobiographical and crime reportage as well as a Novella: Hollywood Fuck Pad.

Un asesino en serie, metódico y concienzudo, comete varios crímenes sin que nadie sospeche su autoría. Sin embargo, la vida del asesino y la del sargento Hopkins tiene parecidos soprendentes. Ambos estan obsesionados por las mujeres y las amas, aunque cada uno a su manera. Ambos, tambien, fueron violados de niños. Son dos 'iluminados' con una mision que cumplir.

Los Angeles, 1947: The mutilated body of a beautiful young woman -- dubbed the Black Dahlia by the press -- is found, spawning the greatest manhunt in California history. Warrants Squad cops Buckeye Bleacher and Lee Blanched are on the case, and soon become obsessed with the victim. They are driven to learn everything about her, and find that their pursuit of her killer and her twisted past lead them on a hellish tour of post-war Hollywood and into a region of total madness.