The Big Nowhere - Softcover

Ellroy, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446674370 ISBN 13: 9780446674379

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

Los Angeles, 1950 Red crosscurrents: the Commie Scare and a string of brutal mutilation killings. Gangland intrigue and Hollywood sleaze. Three cops caught in a hellish web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. Danny Upshaw is a Sheriff's deputy stuck with a bunch of snuffs nobody cares about; they're his chance to make his name as a cop...and to sate his darkest curiosities. Mal Considine is D.A.'s Bureau brass. He's climbing on the Red Scare bandwagon to advance his career and to gain custody of his adopted son, a child he saved from the horror of postwar Europe. Buzz Meeks-bagman, ex-Narco goon, and pimp for Howard Hughes-is fighting communism for the money. All three men have purchased tickets to a nightmare.

About this title

Review:

"Epic, obsessively imagined history" (The Face)

"Like Hammett and Chandler, but Ellroy adds layers they never dared.One of the most compelling crime novels in a long time" (Philadelphia Enquirer)

"One of the best and most important writers in America today" (Vox)

"The man who calls himself "the demon dog" of American crime fiction is still the classiest act around" (Daily Mail)

"Ellroy is the author of some of the most powerful crime novels ever written" (New York Times)

Book Description:

The brutal, explosive epic of murder and corruption from thr author of LA Confidential

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0446674370
• ISBN 13: 9780446674379
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416