num_pages: 406
description: The D. A.'s brass, a sheriff's deputy, and a rough-and-tumble bagman are unknowingly chasing a nightmare in this thrilling novel from the author of "some of the most powerful crime novels ever written" ( New York Times ).Los Angeles, 1950 Red the Commie Scare and a string of brutal mutilation killings. Gangland intrigue and Hollywood sleaze. Three cops caught in a hellish web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. Danny Upshaw is a Sheriff's deputy stuck with a bunch of snuffs nobody cares about; they're his chance to make his name as a cop...and to sate his darkest curiosities. Mal Considine is D.A.'s Bureau brass. He's climbing on the Red Scare bandwagon to advance his career and to gain custody of his adopted son, a child he saved from the horror of postwar Europe. Buzz Meeks-bagman, ex-Narco goon, and pimp for Howard Hughes-is fighting communism for the money. All three men have purchased tickets to a nightmare.
language: English
title: The Big Nowhere
titlecomplete: The Big Nowhere
characters: lieutenant Malcolm Considine, Turner "Buzz" Meeks, Deputy Danny Upshaw
genres: Fiction, American, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Hard Boiled, Historical Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 16948
places: Los Angeles, California
series: L.A. Quartet
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Deutscher Krimi Preis
category: 2. Platz International
publisher: Mysterious Press