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    L.A. Confidential

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    Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt 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.
    © Marion Ettlinger
    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 also the author of two other Freddy Otash novels, Widespread Panic and The Enchanters. He was awarded the 2022 Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Colorado. View titles by James Ellroy
    “Faster than a stray bullet. . . . Ellroy spares no sensibilities.” —Los Angeles Times

    “You can get sliced just turning the pages.” —The Village Voice

    “Brutal and at the same time believable.” —The New York Times

    “Ellroy will soon be as well-known as Hammett and Chandler, and L.A. Confidential will be the book that puts him over the top.” —San Diego Union-Tribune

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    Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt 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.

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    © Marion Ettlinger
    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 also the author of two other Freddy Otash novels, Widespread Panic and The Enchanters. He was awarded the 2022 Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Colorado. View titles by James Ellroy

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    “Faster than a stray bullet. . . . Ellroy spares no sensibilities.” —Los Angeles Times

    “You can get sliced just turning the pages.” —The Village Voice

    “Brutal and at the same time believable.” —The New York Times

    “Ellroy will soon be as well-known as Hammett and Chandler, and L.A. Confidential will be the book that puts him over the top.” —San Diego Union-Tribune

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