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This Storm : a novel

Ellroy, James 1948- (author.).

Summary: A massive novel of World War II Los Angeles. The crowning work of an American master. It is January, 1942. Torrential rainstorms hit L.A.A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops rate it a routine dead-man job. They're grievously wrong. It's a summons to misalliance and all the spoils of a brand-new war. 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, caught up in the maelstrom of the Japanese internment. Dudley Smith is an LAPD 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. They've signed on for the dead-man job. They've got a hot date with History. They will fight their inner wars within The War with unstoppable fury.

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  • ISBN: 9780525521730
  • ISBN: 0525521739
  • ISBN: 9780307957009
  • ISBN: 0307957004
  • ISBN: 9780307946683
  • ISBN: 0307946681
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

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