{"product_id":"white-jazz-9780375727368","title":"White Jazz","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLos Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKlein's been hung out as bait, \"a bad cop to draw the heat,\" and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, \"forty-two and going on dead,\" it's dues time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKlein tells his own story--his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing--taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, \u003cb\u003eWhite Jazz\u003c\/b\u003e is crime fiction at its most shattering.\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. He is also the author of two collections, \u003ci\u003eCrime Wave\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDestination: Morgue!\u003c\/i\u003e and two memoirs \u003ci\u003eMy Dark Places\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Hilliker Curse\u003c\/i\u003e. Ellroy currently lives in Denver, Colorado. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewww.jamesellroy.net\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50323921764626,"sku":"9780375727368","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f164647b-85c6-4852-abf2-0b9276e81ccf.jpg?v=1727662180","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/white-jazz-9780375727368","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}