{"product_id":"crime-wave-reportage-and-fiction-from-the-underside-of-la-9780375704710","title":"Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A.","description":"Los Angeles. In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field. And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James Ellroy. With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, he returns to his native habitat and portrays it as a smog-shrouded netherworld where\"every third person is a peeper, prowler, pederast, or pimp.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the scandal sheets of the 1950s to this morning's police blotter, Ellroy reopens true crimes and restores human dimensions to their victims. Sublimely, he resurrects the rag \u003ci\u003eHush-Hush\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. And in a baroquely plotted novella of slaughter and corruption he enlists the forgotten luminaries of a lost Hollywood. Shocking, mesmerizing, and written in prose as wounding as an ice pick, \u003cb\u003eCrime Wave\u003c\/b\u003e is Ellroy at his best.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L. A. Quartet novels--\u003cb\u003eThe Black Dahlia\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Big Nowhere\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eL. A. Confidential\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eWhite Jazz\u003c\/b\u003e--were international bestsellers. His novel \u003cb\u003eAmerican Tabloid\u003c\/b\u003e was \u003cb\u003eTime\u003c\/b\u003e magazine's Novel of the Year for 1995; his memoir \u003cb\u003eMy Dark Places\u003c\/b\u003e was \u003cb\u003eTime\u003c\/b\u003e magazine Best Book of the Year and a \u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e Notable Book of the Year. Ellroy is a Writer at Large for \u003cb\u003eGQ\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514086854930,"sku":"9780375704710","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_de737e66-4e21-4c43-9b97-125268d5c880.jpg?v=1730972811","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/crime-wave-reportage-and-fiction-from-the-underside-of-la-9780375704710","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}