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 ConfidentialandWhite Jazz. His most recent novel,Blood's a Rover, completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American TabloidandThe Cold Six Thousand) were bothSunday Timesbestsellers.
