Book description
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...
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.
