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»Ellroy ist der wichtigste zeitgenössische Krimiautor.« Der Spiegel

Los Angeles 1958: Dave Klein, Lieutenant des LAPD, ist Cop und Gangster, Ermittler und Killer zugleich. In dem Sumpf aus Gewalt, Korruption und Drogen versteht er es meister-haft, seinen Kopf über Wasser zu halten. Bis das FBI im mafiösen Milieu der Berufsboxer ermittelt und er zwischen die Fronten gerät.

Band 4 des berühmten L.A.-Quartetts.

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ISBN-13:	9783843710251
Publisher:	Ullstein Ebooks
Publication date:	02/27/2015
Series:	Das L.A.-Quartett , #4
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	511
File size:	7 MB
Language:	German

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James Ellroy, Jahrgang 1948, begann seine Schriftstellerkarriere 1979 mit Browns Grabgesang. Mit Die Schwarze Dahlie gelang ihm der internationale Durchbruch. Unter anderem wurde Ellroy fünfmal mit dem Deutschen Krimipreis ausgezeichnet, zahlreiche Bücher wurden verfilmt, darunter L.A. Confidential.

James Ellroy, Jahrgang 1948, begann seine Schriftstellerkarriere 1981 mit Browns Grabgesang. Mit Die Schwarze Dahlie gelang ihm der internationale Durchbruch. Unter anderem wurde Ellroy fünfmal mit dem Deutschen Krimipreis ausgezeichnet, zahlreiche Bücher wurden verfilmt, darunter L.A. Confidential.

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Blacker than noir, this latest novel from the author of L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia is set in 1958 and features a dirty LAPD detective with a breathtaking mastery of corruption. Dave Klein, a gangland heavy, USC law grad and police lieutenant, can thread a legal loophole as easily as he slips on brass knuckles. Assigned by the police commissioner to head an investigation into a narc squad payoff source, Klein smells a setup. To save himself, he traces a genealogy of double-dealing that includes incest, institutionalized bribery and police corruption, all going back decades. Ellroy's telegraphic style, which reduces masses of plot information to quick-study shorthand, captures the seamy stream-of-consciousness of this tainted cop and carries the reader from initial repulsion to a fascination that lingers long after the story's last notes have faded away. Ellroy adroitly transfers the manic energy of scat and bebop to this final volume of his tense, lowdown L.A. epic. Moreover, he demonstrates perfect pitch for illegalese, but the hepcat banter never obscures the complex plotting of politics and pre-Miranda rights police work, a combination that here makes most other crime novels seem naive. 40,000 first printing; BOMC alternate. (Sept.)

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Ellroy adeptly leads the reader into the murky, decadent world of Los Angeles in the late 1950s, as seen through the cynical eyes of David Klein, age 42, the commanding officer of the LAPD's vice division. Klein makes up his own rules as he goes along, rules that involve money, mayhem, and murder as necessary. Klein isn't the only one to follow such rules, which apparently are the ``norm'' for other members of the force as well. But Klein suffers the unthinkable when he becomes the scapegoat so that other officers can protect their own dirty laundry from the probing eyes of federal agents. White Jazz is the last volume of what is known as Ellroy's ``L.A. quartet'' of crime novels, which includes his previous L.A. Confidential (Mysterious Pr., 1990), The Big Nowhere (Mysterious Pr., 1988), and The Black Dahlia ( LJ 10/15/87). It's disturbing but riveting reading that Ellroy fans will especially enjoy.--Marlene Lee, Drain Branch Lib., Ore.

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