Book description
1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the
Angel of Death.
Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising
the community. Three men are plunged into a maelstrom of violence and
deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one
confronts his own personal darkness...
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
bestsellers.