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White Jazz

L.A. Quartet, Book 4

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White Jazz

By: James Ellroy
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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Los Angeles, 1958: a city on the make. A boomtown at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder.

Lieutenant Dave Klein: in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord, mob killer. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence and death will intersect, 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.

Klein'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.

©1992 James Ellroy (P)2016 Isis Publishing Ltd Crime Fiction Historical Modern Detectives Mystery Police Procedural Fiction Crime
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Great book with staccato style that doesn’t translate to narration quite as well as it reads.

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Story did not quite reach expectations and was a struggle to sit through at times which is a shame as I really enjoyed the previous three entries. It was good to focus on one character this time, but I did not find Klein a very compelling or likeable character.

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