LA Confidential
  • Published: 1 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099537885
  • Imprint: Windmill Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $27.99

LA Confidential

Classic Noir

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1 Jul 2011
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31 Mar 2012
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Ellroy's back with the third of his LA Quartet!

Ellroy's back with the third of his LA Quartet!
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals.

Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L.A.P.D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers...The novel takes these cops on a sprawling epic of brutal violence and the murderous seedy side of Hollywood. One of the best (and longest) crime novels ever written, it is the heart of Ellroy's four-novel masterpiece, the LA Quartet, and an example of crime writing at its most powerful.
  • Published: 1 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099537885
  • Imprint: Windmill Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $27.99
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About the author

James Ellroy

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed 'L.A. Quartet': The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz. His novel Blood's A Rover completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers. His last novel Widespread Panic received wide praise, with The Times calling it 'extraordinary'.

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Also by James Ellroy

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

Ellroy writes as if driven by demons. His brutal, staccato graffiti tips over into art

Sunday Times

No emotion is spared; the writing is sparse, the plotting controlled. Not for the faint of heart, this is a big, powerful crime novel and possibly the first important example of the genre in the 1990s

Sunday Telegraph

Empty of any unessentials and full of wise-cracking wit

Mail on Sunday

Unputdownable

Time Out