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L.A. Confidential is epic "noir", a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen are caught in a deadly spiral, a nightmare that tests loyalty and courage, and offers no mercy, grants no survivors.

With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, the author of "L.A. Confidential" returns to his native habitat and portrays Los Angeles as a smog-shrouded netherworld.

Los Angeles, la metropoli corrotta, violenta, amata, scenario costante di tutta l'opera di Ellroy, è protagonista anche dei cinque racconti e del romanzo breve di questa raccolta. Il romanzo breve, che dà il titolo al volume, ha per protagonista Dick Contino, un fisarmonicista che Ellroy fa rivivere in una storia di amore e tradimento. E assieme a lui rivivono le atmosfere dei locali notturni degli anni cinquanta. Nei cinque racconti che seguo...

James Ellroy (1948) è uno tra i più celebri scrittori americani viventi. Nelle pagine di successi come "Dalia nera", "L.A. Confidential", "American Tabloid" e "Perfidia" ha rivoluzionato i canoni della crime fiction, irriso l'Olimpo hollywoodiano ed esibito il cuore nero di Los Angeles e degli Stati Uniti. In queste interviste selezionate da Tommaso De Lorenzis, consulente editoriale, il "cane rabbioso" del noir svela le origini del suo univer...

In questa raccolta James Ellroy, lo scrittore contemporaneo capace di donare al crimine quotidiano la statura dell'epica, racconta la sua America. Dal duello elettorale Gore-Bush agli eventi dell'11 settembre, dalla cronaca di un incontro di boxe al resoconto di un efferrato delitto insoluto a Hollywood, l'autore di L.A. Confidential conduce per mano il lettore in un viaggio attraverso il lato più oscuro della società americana contemporanea.

Dig it. A famous musician-cum-draft dodger is plotting the perfect celebrity snatch-his own. An ex-con raging on revenge in High Darktown becomes a cop's worst nightmare. While chasing kidnappers, two cops stumble on an okie town as bloody as the O.K. Corral. A strongarm for Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen finds himself playing both ends against the middle, all for a murderously magnificent moll. This is L.A., Ellroy style-corrupt cops,...

Legendary crime writer James Ellroy gives us a searing, candid memoir about his obsession with women, his related search for atonement, and his literary career. The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. In a dark moment, he "summoned her dead." Three months later she was murdered. The curse was evoked, and James Ellroy began his unending pursuit of wome...

In this savagely audacious novel, James Ellroy" plants a pipe bomb under the America in the 1960s, lights the fuse, and watches the shrapnel fly. On November 22, 1963 three men converge in Dallas. Their job: to clean up the JFK hit's loose ends and inconvenient witnesses. They are Wayne Tedrow, Jr., a Las Vegas cop with family ties to the lunatic right, Ward J. Littell, a defrocked FBI man turned underworld mouthpiece, and Pete Bondurant, a do...

Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can't stand music, or any loud sounds. He's got a beautiful wife, but he can't get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories. He's a thinking man's cop with a dark past and an obsessive drive to hunt down monsters who prey on the innocent. Now, there's something haunting him. He sees a connection in a series of increasingly gruesome murders of wome...

Political noir as only Ellroy can write it, "Blood's A Rover" is a novel of astonishing depth and scope, a massive tale of corruption and retribution, of ideals at war and the extremity of love. Set in the tumultuous year of 1968, this novel is the largest and greatest work of fiction by an American master--the wild, startling and much-anticipated conclusion to his Underworld USA trilogy.

Publisher's Weekly says Suicide Hill is a book that "hurtles along with almost equal gore and slapstick ... L.A.'s sleazy sides are brilliantly drawn ... Ellroy can't write a dull line".

A botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A hero cop is missing. Nobody could see a pattern in these two stray bits of information-no one except Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins, a brilliant and disturbed L.A. cop with an obsessive desire to protect the innocent. To him they lead to one horrifying conclusion--a killer is on the loose and preying on his city. From the master of L.A. noir comes this beautiful and brutal tale of a co...

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The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia.We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C. . . . Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and vari...

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, ...

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The highly acclaimed novel from bestselling author James Ellroy is now a major motion picture.