James Ellroy

This Storm (Bok)

January '42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese residents are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They're wrong. It's an early-warning signal of Chaos. There's a murderous fire and a gold heist. There's Fifth Column treason on American soil. There are homegrown Nazis, Commies, and race racketeers. It's populism ascendant. There's two dead cops in a dive off the jazz-club strip. And three men and one woman have a hot date with history. Elmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop. He's a flesh peddler and a bagman for the L.A. Chief of Police. Hideo Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, lashed by anti-Japanese rage. Dudley Smith is PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. He's gone rogue and gone all-the-way fascist. Joan Conville was born rogue. She's a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core. L.A. '42. Homefront madness. Wartime inferno--This Storm is James Ellroy's most audacious novel yet. It is by turns savage, tender, elegiac. It lays bare and celebrates crazed Americans of all stripes. It is a masterpiece.

Författare:	James Ellroy
Titel:	This Storm
Typ:	Bok
Kategori:	Böcker/Skönlitteratur/Utländsk
Releasedatum:	2020-03-03
Registreringsdatum:	2024-03-01
Artikelnummer:	804335
Lagerstatus:	Beställningsvara Leveranstid: från 14 vardagar
EAN:	9780593082805
ISBN:	0593082805
Språk:	Engelska
Bandtyp:	Pocket
Mått(BxHxD):	130x203x30 mm
Vikt:	483 gram
Titel:	This Storm
Förlag:	Random House US