Криминальный роман о трёх детективах в коррумпированном Лос-Анджелесе 1950-х. Напряжение до последней страницы.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. Forthe three L.A.P.D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on whichthey have built their corrupt and violent careers...The novel takes these cops ona 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'sfour-novel masterpiece, the LA Quartet, and an example of crime writing at itsmost powerful.
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 WhiteJazz. His novel Blood's A Rover completes the magisterial 'Underworld USATrilogy'- the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold SixThousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers. His previous novel, This Storm,is the second instalment in Ellroy's 'Second L.A. Quartet'.