This storm
Ellroy, James, 1948-2020
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January 1942. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They're wrong. It's an early-warning signal of Chaos. There's a murderous fire and a gold heist exploding out of the past. There's Fifth Column treason - at this moment, on American soil. There are homegrown Nazis, commies and race racketeers. There's two dead cops in a dive off the jazz-club strip. And three men and one woman have a hot date with History. Elmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop. He's a flesh peddler and a bagman for the L.A. Chief of Police. Hideo Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, lashed by anti-Japanese rage. Dudley Smith is a PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. He's gone rogue and gone all-the-way fascist. Joan Conville was born rogue. She's a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core.
Main title:
This storm / James Ellroy.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Windmill Books, 2020.London : Windmill Books, 2020.
Collation:
590 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: U.S.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.Originally published: United States: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
ISBN:
9780099537779 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
2293193