num_pages: 354
description: The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia .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 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.
language: English
title: White Jazz
titlecomplete: White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)
characters: Johnny Duhamel, George Stemmons, Dudley Smith, Edmund Exley, Lieutenant Dave Klein
genres: American, Hard Boiled, Noir, Mystery, Fiction, Detective, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 8865
places: Los Angeles, California
series: L.A. Quartet
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Falcon Award
publisher: Vintage