Clandestine

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Clandestine
Authors and Contributors      By (author) James Ellroy
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:352
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreCrime and mystery
ISBN/Barcode 9780099558880
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Cornerstone
Imprint Windmill Books
Publication Date 1 November 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A scintillating novel of sex and murder in 50s LA Los Angeles 1951 - Frederick Underhill, an ambitious rookie of the Los Angeles Police Department, want to become the most celebrated detective of his time. He is also sexually promiscuous. His two drives are brought together by the slaying of Maggie Cadwallader, a lonely woman whom Underhill slept with shortly before her death. Using his inside knowledge, Underhill gets himself on the case, which is being handled by LA's most fearsome investigator- Lieutenant Dudley Smith. But instead of the celebrity status he was hoping for, Underhill finds himself on the edge of the abyss, his whole life and future about to take a fall.

Author Biography

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.

Reviews

One of the most original and daring writers alive * Independent on Sunday * The most distinctive crime writer of his generation * Sunday Times * Ellroy is a unique voice in American fiction * Jonathan Kellerman * One of the most important popular fiction writers in America, whose best books take their readers to the darkest places of the human condition - a Tinseltown Dostoevsky * Time Out *