ISBN: 0375727361

ISBN13: 9780375727368

White Jazz

(Book #4 in the L.A. Quartet Series)

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The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia.

Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.

Klein's been hung out as bait, a bad cop to draw the heat, and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, forty-two and going on dead, it's dues time.

Klein tells his own story--his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing--taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive.

Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0375727361

ISBN13:9780375727368

Release Date:April 2001

Publisher:Vintage

Length:368 Pages

Weight:0.67 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.2" x 8.0"

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Rated 5 stars
jazz

By Thriftbooks.com User, November 19, 2005

Under-rated. Although this book has a few dry patches, it more than makes up for it as the majority of pages read fast paced and extremely entertaining. Among other things, Ellroy achieves new realism with this novel. Ellroy on top of his game. 5 stars.

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Simply the best.

By Thriftbooks.com User, February 2, 2004

I'm a big fan of a wide variety of fiction. Regardless of genre, I admire bold experimentation with prose technique. It doesn't get any better than Nabokov or Faulkner for me. I also like writers who tell far more conventional stories but do so with a flair for language, like Robertson Davies or, in the detective fiction area, Chandler and Hammett.The bottom line? Ellroy deserves to rank not only among Chandler and Hammett...

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A climactic finale

By Thriftbooks.com User, December 26, 2002

The final showdown that LA Confidential promised us comes together in this novel. Ed Exley and Dudley Smith finally go at it through a most unusual go between who doesn't know what hes getting into between these two, Dave Klein. Klein is a corrupt Vice cop in every way. He's out for himself. But when he gets drawn into the big chess match played by Exley and SMith he starts to question what hes been doing and who he is...

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Rated 5 stars
Six Characters in Search of a Verb

By Thriftbooks.com User, September 2, 2002

The rumor is that Ellroy turned in a 900-page first draft. When his publisher protested, the author cut down the book to itspresent length by eliminating verbs, articles, adjectives, and most other parts of speech. The result is a breathless gallop through a darkly fascinating world of murder, incest, perversion, corruption, greed, and lust. And that's just for starters!Reading WHITE JAZZ is like reading Anthony Burgess's...

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Definitive Ellroy

By Thriftbooks.com User, June 17, 2001

This is the most amazing book I have ever read, taking me inside the mind of corrupt,insomniac rogue cop and lawyer Dave Klein, the most memorable of Ellroy's alienated hard men. The plot is tight, zig-zagging all over LA and through a map of the darl underside of fifties America. Although Klein has quite rightly been described as a repulsive human being, like all of JA's characters he is true to himself and has the shopsoiled...

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