________________________ 'Ellroy writes with raw power ...
undeniably one of the most influential crime writers of our time'
THE TIMES 'a tangled fever-dream ... Ellroy offers a grandiose,
Wagnerian vision of wartime LA' SUNDAY TIMES
________________________ A brilliant historical crime novel, set in
Los Angeles and Mexico during the pulse-pounding aftermath of the
attack on Pearl Harbor. January, '42. L.A. reels behind the shock
of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese are rounded up and slammed behind
bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in
Griffith Park. The cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They're
wrong. It's an early-warning signal of Chaos. There's a murderous
fire and a gold heist exploding out of the past. There's Fifth
Column treason - at this moment, on American soil. There are
homegrown Nazis, commies and race racketeers. There's two dead cops
in a dive off the jazz-club strip. And three men and one woman have
a hot date with History. Elmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop. He's
a flesh peddler and a bagman for the L.A. Chief of Police. Hideo
Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, lashed by anti-Japanese rage. Dudley
Smith is a PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. He's gone rogue
and gone all-the-way fascist. Joan Conville was born rogue. She's a
defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core. L.A.,
'42. Homefront madness ascendant. Early-wartime inferno - This
Storm is James Ellroy's most audacious novel yet. It is by turns
savage, tender, elegiac. It lays bare and celebrates crazed
Americans of all stripes. ________________________ 'Epic crime
writing from a master' DAILY MAIL 'Ellroy is unique. There is
nobody writing this way ... Nobody has done or is doing what he is
doing' BOOKMUNCH
General
Imprint: |
Windmill Books
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
March 2020 |
Authors: |
James Ellroy
|
Dimensions: |
200 x 130 x 40mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
|
Pages: |
608 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-09-953777-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
0-09-953777-X |
Barcode: |
9780099537779 |
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