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The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. 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 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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Detective and mystery stories, Police corruption, Fiction, Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Dept, Los Angeles (Calif.)., Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Dept., California, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Klein, david (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Exley, ed (fictitious character), fiction, Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department, Corrupción policiaca, Ficción, Historias misterio y detectives, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Crime, fictionShowing 4 featured editions. View all 24 editions?
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White Jazz
November 3, 2005, Arrow Books Ltd, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House
Mass Market Paperback
in English
0099649403 9780099649403
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White jazz: a novel
1992, Knopf, Distributed by Random House, Inc.
in English
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0679414495 9780679414490
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