White Jazz av James Ellroy

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<p>Best-selling crime fiction author James Ellroy returns with the fourth in his LA Quartet.<br><br>Los Angeles, 1958: a city on the make. A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. <br><br>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. 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.<br><br>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. For Klein, "forty-two and going on dead," it''s dues time...</p>