num_pages: 349
description: Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad cop to draw the heat," and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, "forty-two and going on dead," it's dues time.Klein tells his own story--his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing--taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive.Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: White Jazz
titlecomplete: White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
characters: Lieutenant Dave Klein, Edmund Exley, George Stemmons, Dudley Smith, Johnny Duhamel
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Noir, American, Historical Fiction, Hard Boiled
ratings_count: 8865
places: Los Angeles, California
series: L.A. Quartet
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Falcon Award
publisher: Knopf