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Zusatztext “One of the great American writers or our time.” — Los Angeles Times “A blood poet who writes as chain saws crank! Ellroy has vigorously redefined the well-shadowed turf of contemporary crime fiction.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "An undeniably artful frenzy of violence! guilt! and unappeased self-loathing. Ellroy's crime fiction represents a high mark in the genre." -- Newsday “Ellroy rips into American culture like a chainsaw in an abbatoir.” -- Time "He's forged a style uniquely his own. Energetic and abrasive! it comes at us like a speed freak. . . . The power and pull of Ellroy's writing is unmistakable." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Ellroy is the author of some of the most powerful crime novels ever written." -- The New York Times “Garrotte-tight prose. . . . [Ellroy is] a force of nature! stringing together words into barbed-wire lariats which he then uses to choke the bejesus out of you. . . . His novels are all muscle! zero fat.” --Austin Chronicle "Memorable! stunning! incisive. . . . It is possible! I think! to make the argument that in the past couple of decades! Mr. Ellroy has been the most influential writer in America." --Otto Penzler! The New York Sun “Nobody in this generation matches the breadth and depth of James Ellroy’s way with noir.” --Detroit News "Ellroy sprays declarative sentences like machine-gun bullets! blasting to kingdom come all notions of justice! heroism! and simple decency." -- Entertainment Weekly "[Ellroy] can make the night world of sleaze and street monsters come alive on the page." -- St. Louis Globe-Democrat Informationen zum Autor James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels– The Black Dahlia , The Big Nowhere , L.A. Confidential , and White Jazz –were international bestsellers. American Tabloid was Time ’s Novel of the Year for 1995; his memoir My Dark Places was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996; his most recent novel, The Cold Six Thousand , was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year for 2001. He lives on the California coast. Klappentext A botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A hero cop is missing. Nobody could see a pattern in these two stray bits of information-no one except Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins, a brilliant and disturbed L.A. cop with an obsessive desire to protect the innocent. To him they lead to one horrifying conclusion--a killer is on the loose and preying on his city. From the master of L.A. noir comes this beautiful and brutal tale of a cop and a criminal squared off in a life and death struggle. Zusammenfassung A botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A hero cop is missing. Nobody could see a pattern in these two stray bits of information–no one except Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins! a brilliant and disturbed L.A. cop with an obsessive desire to protect the innocent. To him they lead to one horrifying conclusion--a killer is on the loose and preying on his city. From the master of L.A. noir comes this beautiful and brutal tale of a cop and a criminal squared off in a life and death struggle. ...
