White Jazz (L.A. Quartet) - Softcover

Ellroy, James

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9780099649403: White Jazz (L.A. Quartet)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099649403 ISBN 13: 9780099649403

Publisher: Arrow, 1994

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

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"'A vivid, enthralling read...James Ellroy is the outstanding American crime writer of his generation'" (Independent)

"'Ellroy has completed a climb to the very pinnacle of crime writing.White Jazz is without doubt his best yet'" (City Limits)

"'Recent novels by the likes of Carl Hiassen, Andrew Vachss and George V Higgins have at best been treading water.James Ellroy may be the exception.he seems in less danger of burnout than of going supernova'" (New Statesman and Society)

"'James Ellroy writes like a man possessed about men possessed...the labyrinthine plotting is superb...a bleak, loveless masterpiece'" (Modern Review)

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'The most original crime writer of our time' Spectator

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