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Perfidia

By: James Ellroy
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans - but now war fever grips the city, and the Japanese internment begins. The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman.

William H. Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police. He’s superbly gifted but consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith – ex-IRA killer, fledgling war profiteer.

Kay Lake is a 21-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. Hideo Ashida is a police chemist and the only Japanese on the payroll. The investigation throws them together and rips them apart.

©2014 James Ellroy (P)2015 Isis Publishing Ltd Crime Fiction Historical Mystery Police Procedural Fiction Crime War Imperial Japan
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Another immersion in the dark, conspiratorial imagination of Ellroy. Dudley Smith is one of the most evil and mesmerising characters in lliterature.

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