Book description
Los Angeles, 1958: a city on the make. A boom town at the edge of a
new era ripe for plunder.
Lieutenant Dave Klein: in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord, mob
killer. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where
violence and death will intersect.
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.
