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"From "one of the great American writers of our time" (Los Angeles Times Book Review)--a brilliant historical crime novel, a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles and Mexico in the wake in Pearl Harbor.
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Relentless, bleak, plot-driven and meticulous.
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Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels *The Black Dahlia* (1987), *The Big Nowhere* (1988), *L.A. Confidential* (1990), *White Jazz* (1992), *American Tabloid* (1995), *The Cold Six Thousand* (2001), and *Blood's a Rover* (2009). *-- Wikipedia*
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