TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ellroy,James
TI  - Perfidia
SN  - 9780434020539 (paperback)
U1  - 813.54 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - William Heinemann
KW  - Detective and mystery stories
KW  - FICTION / Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled
KW  - FICTION / Historical
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Japanese Americans
KW  - California
KW  - Los Angeles
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - A pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles over twenty-three days beginning on December 6, 1941. The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. The United States teeters on the edge of war. The roundup of allegedly treasonous Japanese Americans is about to begin. And in L.A., a Japanese family is found dead. Murder or ritual suicide? The investigation will draw four people into a totally Ellroy-ian tangle: a brilliant Japanese American forensic chemist; an unsatisfiably adventurous young woman; one police officer based in fact (William H. "Whiskey Bill" Parker, later to become the groundbreaking chief of the LAPD), the other the product of Ellroy's inimitable imagination (Dudley Smith, arch villain of The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz). As their lives intertwine, we are given a story of war and of consuming romance, a searing expose of the Japanese internment, and an astonishingly detailed homicide investigation. In Perfidia, Ellroy delves more deeply than ever before into his characters' intellectual and emotional lives. But it has the full-strength, unbridled story-telling audacity that has marked all the acclaimed work of the "Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction."
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