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LA Confidential: Classic Noir
James Ellroy
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Description for LA Confidential: Classic Noir
Paperback. Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked 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.. Series: L.A. Quartet. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 197 x 31. Weight in Grams: 346.
Ellroy's back with the third of his LA Quartet!
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked 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...The novel takes these cops on a sprawling epic of brutal violence and the murderous seedy side of Hollywood. One of the best (and longest) crime novels ever written, it is the heart of Ellroy's four-novel masterpiece, the LA ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
Series
L.A. Quartet
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099537885
SKU
9780099537885
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About James Ellroy
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed 'LA Quartet': The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz. His most recent novel, Blood's a Rover, completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times ... Read more
Reviews for LA Confidential: Classic Noir
Ellroy writes as if driven by demons. His brutal, staccato graffiti tips over into art
Sunday Times
No emotion is spared; the writing is sparse, the plotting controlled. Not for the faint of heart, this is a big, powerful crime novel and possibly the first important example of the genre in the 1990s
Sunday Telegraph
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Sunday Times
No emotion is spared; the writing is sparse, the plotting controlled. Not for the faint of heart, this is a big, powerful crime novel and possibly the first important example of the genre in the 1990s
Sunday Telegraph
Empty ... Read more