White Jazz

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Best-selling crime fiction author James Ellroy returns with the fourth in his LA Quartet 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...

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.

A vivid, enthralling read... James Ellroy is the outstanding American crime writer of his generation * Independent * 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 * 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 *