James Ellroy
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L.A. Confidential: A Crime Novel
James Ellroy
The movie Janet Maslin of the New York Times calls: “Gangbusters! A shrewd, elegant film with a flawless ensemble cast and style to burn”; L.A. Confidential is an epic crime novel that stands as a steel-edged time capsule—Los Angeles in the 1950s, a remarkable era defined in dark shadings.A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law—three cops treading quicksand in the middle.
Detective Ed Exley wants glory. Haunted by his father’s success as a policeman, he will pay any price, break any law…
