Ellroy writes as if driven by demons.His brutal staccato graffiti tips over into art.''SUNDAY TIMES
No emotion is spared;the
writing is sparse,the plotting controlled.Not for the faint of heart,this is a
big,powerful
crime novel and possibly the first important example of the genre in the 1990s.James Ellroy has emerged as a unique vioce in American crime writing SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed LA Quartet, The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz, as well as the first two parts of his Underworld USA trilogy, American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand which were both Sunday Times bestsellers.
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