SUMMARY: Author of the bestselling Black Dahlia, James Ellroy, pens another thriller--a noir epic of three men caught in a web of ambition, perversion and deceit during the fifties in L.A. Each is on a collision course with the Commie scare and a string of brutal murders.
L.A. Quartet - 02 - The Big Nowhere
โ Scribed by Ellroy, James
- Publisher
- Mysterious Press
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 286 KB
- Edition
- Reprint
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
SUMMARY: Author of the bestselling Black Dahlia, James Ellroy, pens another thriller--a noir epic of three men caught in a web of ambition, perversion and deceit during the fifties in L.A. Each is on a collision course with the Commie scare and a string of brutal murders.
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SUMMARY: Author of the bestselling Black Dahlia, James Ellroy, pens another thriller--a noir epic of three men caught in a web of ambition, perversion and deceit during the fifties in L.A. Each is on a collision course with the Commie scare and a string of brutal murders.
SUMMARY: Author of the bestselling Black Dahlia, James Ellroy, pens another thriller--a noir epic of three men caught in a web of ambition, perversion and deceit during the fifties in L.A. Each is on a collision course with the Commie scare and a string of brutal murders.
### From Publishers Weekly Returning to Los Angeles a few years after World War II (the setting of his last novel, The Black Dahlia ), Ellroy has come up with an ambitious, enthralling melodrama painted on a broad, dark canvas. The novel's first half interweaves two stories of lonely, driven lawmen
A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year's Eve as 1949 turns to 1950, Los Angeles: The City of Angels has becomes the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into a maelstrom of violence
{ Sept 2020 - fixed TOC and split chapters into separate pages } Paperback, 472 pages Published 1988 Los Angeles, 1950 Red crosscurrents: the Commie Scare and a string of brutal mutilation killings. Gangland intrigue and Hollywood sleaze. Three cops caught in a hellish web of ambition, perversi