An edition of White Jazz: A Novel (1991)

White Jazz

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An edition of White Jazz: A Novel (1991)

White Jazz

  • 3.8 (5 ratings) ·
  • 10 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 8 Have read

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.

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Language
English
Pages
416

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Previews available in: Polish English

Edition Availability
Cover of: Biała gorączka
Biała gorączka
2015, Wydawnictwo Sonia Draga
in Polish - Wydanie I.
Cover of: White Jazz
White Jazz
November 3, 2005, Arrow Books Ltd, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: White Jazz
White Jazz: A Novel
September 1, 1993, Fawcett
in English
Cover of: White jazz
White jazz: a novel
1992, Knopf, Distributed by Random House, Inc.
in English - 1st American ed.

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Edition Notes

Published in
Reading, England

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3555.L6274 W45 1993b

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages
416

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7319671M
Internet Archive
whitejazz0000ellr_f5t5
ISBN 10
0099649403
ISBN 13
9780099649403
Library Thing
24644
Goodreads
101011

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