This storm / James Ellroy.
Series: Second L. A. Quartet. 2 Publication details: London, England : William Heinemann, 2019.Description: 589 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 0434020591 (pbk.)
- 9780434020591 (pbk.)
- 9780434020584 (hardback)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Mexico -- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Suspense fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction
- Criminals -- Fiction
- Police -- Fiction
- Murder -- Fiction
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- 813.6 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Crime | ELL | Second Bk.2 | Available | 069421 |
January, '42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They're wrong. It's an early-warning signal of Chaos. There's a murderous fire and a gold heist, exploding out of the past. There's Fifth Column treason - at this moment, on American soil. There are homegrown Nazis, commies and race racketeers. There's two dead cops in a dive off the jazz-club strip. And three men and one woman have a hot date with History. Elmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop. He's a flesh peddler and a bagman for the L.A. Chief of Police. Hideo Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, lashed by anti-Japanese rage. Dudley Smith is a PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. He's gone rogue and gone all-the-way fascist. Joan Conville was born rogue. She's a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core. L.A., '42. Homefront madness. Wartime inferno - This Storm is James Ellroy's most audacious novel yet. It is by turns savage, tender, elegaic. It lays bare and celebrates crazed Americans of all stripes. It is a masterpiece.