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The third novel in The L.A. Quartet. Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three LAPD detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers. Ed Exley wants to eclipse his policeman father’s success. Bud White watched his own mother’s murder--and is now a time bomb with a badge. Jack Vincennes shakes down movie stars for a scandal magazine. The three men are caught in a deadly spiral, a nightmare that tests loyalty and courage, and offers no mercy, grants no survivors.
About the author
JAMES ELLROY was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy:
American Tabloid,
The Cold Six Thousand, and
Blood’s a Rover, and the L.A. Quartet novels:
The Black Dahlia,
The Big Nowhere,
L.A. Confidential, and
White Jazz. He is the recipient of the
Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement. He lives in Colorado.
