White Jazz

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Review ------ "One of the great American writers of our time." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "White Jazz makes previous detective fiction read like Dr. Seuss." --San Francisco Examiner "Riffling, rolling, reeling. . . . Ellroy's best." --The Denver Post "Riveting. . . . Impossible to put down. . . . An author who breaks all the rules. He's a kamikaze pilot on a collision course with hell. The pen moves madly across the page. . . . A book that is one long scream of rage and emptiness and longing." --The News and Observer Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) From the Inside Flap -------------------- 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 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. Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) See all Editorial Reviews ( /dp/product-description/0375727361/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books&isInIframe=0 )