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A la deriva en el brumoso Hollywood de los ciencuenta, Dick Contino, un acordeonista prácticamente acabado, trata de dar un empujón a su carrera perpetrando un secuestro perfecto: el suyo propio. La historia de Contino abre este fantastico libro compuesto por seis relatos ambientados entre 1947 y 1959. Es en Los Angeles de los cicuenta, una ciudad poblada por policias, criminales, prostitutas, estafadores, cazatalentos en busca de estrellas, rateros, comunistas ocultos y chivatos que traen a la mente peliculas en blanco y negro y amarillistas gacetas de sucesos. Estos extraordinarios, escuetos y descarnados cuentos deslumbran con un humor inesperado, una cruda brutalidad y el realismo que constituye la seña de identidad de Ellroy.

It s 1968. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob, Howard Hughes and J Edgar Hoover are in a struggle for America s soul, drawing into their murderous conspiracies the dammed and the soon-to-be damned. Wayne Tedrow Jr.: parricide, assassin, dope cooker, mouthpiece for all sides, loyal to none. His journey will take him away from the darkness and into an even greater darkness. Dwight Holly: Hoover s enforcer and hellish conspirator in terrible crimes. As Hoover s power wanes his destiny lurches towards Richard Nixon and self-annihilation Don Crutchfield: is a kid, a nobody, a wheelman and a private detective who stumbles upon an ungodly conspiracy from which he and the country may never recover. All three men are drawn to women on the opposite side of the political and moral spectrum; all are compromised and ripe for destruction. Only one of them will survive. The final part of James Ellroy s Underworld USA trilogy is set during the social and political upheaval of 1968-72. Blood s a Rover is an incandescent fusion of fact and fiction and is James Ellroy s greatest masterpiece.

It's 1968. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob, Howard Hughes and J Edgar Hoover are in a struggle for America's soul, drawing into their murderous conspiracies the dammed and the soon-to-be damned. Wayne Tedrow Jr.: parricide, assassin, dope cooker, mouthpiece for all sides, loyal to none. His journey will take him away from the darkness and into an even greater darkness. Dwight Holly: Hoover's enforcer and hellish conspirator in terrible crimes. As Hoover's power wanes his destiny lurches towards Richard Nixon and self-annihilation Don Crutchfield: is a kid, a nobody, a wheelman and a private detective who stumbles upon an ungodly conspiracy from which he and the country may never recover. All three men are drawn to women on the opposite side of the political and moral spectrum; all are compromised and ripe for destruction. Only one of them will survive. The final part of James Ellroy's Underworld USA trilogy is set during the social and political upheaval of 1968-72. Blood's a Rover is an incandescent fusion of fact and fiction and is James Ellroy's greatest masterpiece.

24 février 1964, 7 h 16 du matin à Los Angeles. Attaque d''un fourgon blindé de la Wells Fargo. Quatre convoyeurs abattus, trois braqueurs morts ; le quatrième a pris la fuite en emportant seize sacs

Io sono una somma di ossessioni. Sono parte di me. Sono magro e allampanato, e giro sempre a mille. Mi piace stare solo, la maggior parte del tempo. Ma sono emotivamente affamato, in preda a una perenne eccitazione, una specie di maniaco. E non ho mai voluto avere a che fare con donne da poco ... Gli uomini veri amano Dio, Beethoven e le donne. Cosi James Ellroy, in unintervista al Los Angeles Time, parla di questo suo nuovo libro un libro sulla sua infanzia, sulla madre (Jane Hilliker) e sulla sua maledizione: e stata lei, la sua bellezza, la sua morte, a mettergli per sempre in testa lossessione del sesso, e del mistero dellamore.

Set in 1950s L A CLANDESTINE follows Frederick Underhill of the Los Angeles Police Department as he pursues his dream to become the most celebrated detective of all time. The death of a lonely woman gives him his chance. As an ex-lover of the victim, Underhill soon gets on the case with L A''s most feared interrogator Lieutenant Dudley Smith. But instead of finding his career on the way up, he finds his life about to take a fall....

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.

«De entre todos los retoños que brotaron de la ficción hard-boiled, el género negro es el más escrupulosamente estudiado. (…) La fascinación de lo negro está en la fuerza de la renuncia moral y de la

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

________________________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