Suicide Hill
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Joe caught Klein flush in the stomach and ripped upward with both hands. Blood spurted from his mouth...
SUICIDE HILL
It was simple... and diabolical. Simply select a bank manager, kidnap his girlfriend, then hold her hostage until you've cleaned out the bank.
At first, it was almost a game. But it turned into an orgy of violence, rape and insane revenge.
Investigating is Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins, eager for a chance to clear his tarnished reputation.
But what Hopkins doesn't know is that this time, the enemy is within.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At one point in Ellroy's new mystery, a character wonders if the world is "nothing but wimps, pimps, psychos and sex fiends,'' and by the end of this book the reader wonders, too. Estranged from his wife and daughters and on the verge of forced early retirement, L.A.P.D. Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins is assigned to ``liaise'' with the FBI in investigating bank robberies in which the doxies of philandering bank managers have been held hostage. Hopkins's ``hot-dogging'' investigative methods blur the lines between good guys and bad guys, and by the final series of bloody climaxes almost everybody seems psycho. The book hurtles along with almost equal gore and slapstick, L.A.'s sleazy sides are brilliantly drawn and if the ending is a bit melodramatic readers will have had their money's worth. Ellroy (Because the Night can't write a dull line.
