{"product_id":"perfidia-9780307946676","title":"Perfidia","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003cbr\u003eAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLos Angeles. December, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. War fever and racial hatred grip the city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. LAPD captain William H. Parker is superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious, liquored-up, and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith--Irish  migr , ex-IRA killer, fledgling war profiteer. Hideo Ashida is a police chemist and the only Japanese on the L.A. cop payroll. Kay Lake is a twenty-one-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. The investigation throws them together and rips them apart. The crime becomes a political storm center that brilliantly illuminates these four driven souls--comrades, rivals, lovers, history's pawns. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here, Ellroy gives us the party at the edge of the abyss and the precipice of America's ascendance. \u003ci\u003ePerfidia\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e that moment, spellbindingly captured.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the L.A. Quartet: \u003ci\u003e The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhite Jazz, \u003c\/i\u003eand the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: \u003ci\u003eAmerican Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBlood's A Rover.\u003c\/i\u003e These seven novels have won numerous honors and were international best sellers. Ellroy currently lives in Los Angeles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewww.jamesellroy.net\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50543527592210,"sku":"9780307946676","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0a7b05d2-ef6b-42ba-a8cc-056e85bcb3df.jpg?v=1731510644","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/perfidia-9780307946676","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}