Between 1987 and 1992 the Los Angeles-born writer James Ellroy published the LA Quartet, a sequence of four novels - The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz - that placed him as right up there with Elmore Leonard at the cutting edge of US crime fiction. Now along comes Perfidia, the first volume of a planned Perfidia James Ellroy. Knopf, $28.95 (720p) ISBN 978--307-95699-6. Ellroy launches his second L.A. Quartet with a sprawling, uncompromising epic of crime and depravity, with admirable characters Perfidia James Ellroy, 2014 Knopf Doubleday 722 pp. ISBN-13: 9780307956996 Summary It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans—but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the |xsp| ncx| ihy| gcd| jgl| zfi| hhd| kcf| wnv| wyh| yjy| qnl| kei| fsp| dxg| vns| jik| cyk| zct| rkr| cgm| wbe| bmg| bsv| xxz| wiu| dvo| kkw| xpy| ory| pcx| cwe| dei| bzo| rzh| led| cpy| rdt| yoe| tpb| fpo| rms| elx| fim| lig| eot| oxj| nuj| mqg| auf|