White Jazz (Unabridged) White Jazz (Unabridged)

White Jazz (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
SB
Scott Brick
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
15:33
hr min
RELEASED
2007
June 5
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
686.5
MB

Customer Reviews

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Confusing

The writing style is confusing, I have no idea what is going on in this book, and I’ve read the previous books in this series without any issues.

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