White Jazz - Hardcover

Ellroy, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679414495 ISBN 13: 9780679414490

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1992

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Book by Ellroy James

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When a federal witness under his protective custody is murdered, David Klein, commander of L.A.'s Administrative Vice Division, becomes a scapegoat and the target of local politicians, LAPD brass, his partner, racketeers, and drug kingpins. Tour.

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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 i

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679414495
• ISBN 13: 9780679414490
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1