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Clandestine
  • Published: 2 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099558880
  • Imprint: Windmill Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $29.99
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Clandestine

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30 Nov 2011
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2 Jan 2013
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A scintillating novel of sex and murder in 50s LA

Los Angeles 1951 – Frederick Underhill, an ambitious rookie of the Los Angeles Police Department, want to become the most celebrated detective of his time. He is also sexually promiscuous. His two drives are brought together by the slaying of Maggie Cadwallader, a lonely woman whom Underhill slept with shortly before her death.

Using his inside knowledge, Underhill gets himself on the case, which is being handled by LA’s most fearsome investigator: Lieutenant Dudley Smith. But instead of the celebrity status he was hoping for, Underhill finds himself on the edge of the abyss, his whole life and future about to take a fall.
  • Published: 2 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099558880
  • Imprint: Windmill Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

James Ellroy

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's A Rover, and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Colorado.

portrait photo of James Ellroy

Also by James Ellroy

The Enchanters
LA Confidential
Widespread Panic
This Storm
Perfidia
The L.A. Quartet
American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand
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Praise for Clandestine

One of the most original and daring writers alive

Independent on Sunday

Ellroy is a unique voice in American fiction

Jonathan Kellerman

The most distinctive crime writer of his generation

Sunday Times

One of the most important popular fiction writers in America, whose best books take their readers to the darkest places of the human condition - a Tinseltown Dostoevsky

Time Out