This Storm

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<p><b>________________________</b><br><b>'Ellroy writes with raw power ... undeniably one of the most influential crime writers of our time' </b><i>THE TIMES</i><br><br><b>'a tangled fever-dream ... Ellroy offers a grandiose, Wagnerian vision of wartime LA' </b><i>SUNDAY TIMES</i><br><b>________________________<br>A brilliant historical crime novel, set in Los Angeles and Mexico during the pulse-pounding aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor.</b><br><br><b>January, '42.</b> 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. <br><br>The cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They're wrong. It's an early-warning signal of Chaos. <br><br>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. <br><br>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 <i>born</i> rogue. She's a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core. <br><br><b>L.A., '42.</b> Homefront madness ascendant. Early-wartime inferno - <i>This Storm</i> is James Ellroy's most audacious novel yet. It is by turns savage, tender, elegiac. It lays bare and celebrates crazed Americans of all stripes.<br><b>________________________</b><br><b>'Epic crime writing from a master' </b><i>DAILY MAIL</i><br><br><b>'Ellroy is unique. There is nobody writing this way ... Nobody has done or is doing what he is doing' </b><i>BOOKMUNCH</i></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780099537779

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 128 x 44 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Verlag / Hersteller

Cornerstone