White Jazz
€13.75
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780099537892 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Ellroy |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.294 |
| Publishing Date | 02/06/2011 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €12.97 |
| Tax | €0.78 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €13.75 |
| Availability | 16 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
Best-selling crime fiction author James Ellroy returns with the fourth in his LA Quartet.
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. 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...