{"product_id":"l-a-quartet-book-james-ellroy-9781101908051","title":"The L.A. Quartet","description":"\u003cb\u003eHere in one volume is James Ellroy's first great body of work, an epic re-envisioning of postwar Los Angeles--etched in red and black and film-noir grays.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Black Dahlia\u003c\/i\u003e depicts the secret infrastructure of L.A.'s most sensational murder case. A young cop morphs into obsessed lover and lust-crazed avenger. The Dahlia claims him. She is the deus ex machina of a boomtown in extremis. The cop's rogue investigation is a one-way ticket to hell.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Big Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e blends the crime novel and the political novel. It is winter, 1950--and the L.A. County Grand Jury is out to slam movieland Reds. It's a reverential shuck--and the three cops assigned to the job are out to grab all the glory they can. A series of brutal sex killings intervenes, and the job goes all-the-way bad.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eL.A. Confidential\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e great novel of Los Angeles in the 1950s. Political corruption. Scandal-rag journalism. Bad racial juju and gangland wars. Six local stiffs slaughtered in an all-night hash house. The glorious and overreaching LAPD on an unprecedented scale.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhite Jazz\u003c\/i\u003e gives us the tortured confession of a corrupt cop going down for the count. He's a slumlord, a killer, a parasitic exploiter. He's a pawn in a series of police power plays and starting to see that he's being had. He's just met a woman. Thus, he's determined to claw his way out of the horrifying world he's created--and he's determined to tell us everything.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe L.A. Quartet\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking work of American popular fiction.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51019773477137,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51019775770897,"sku":"NIN9781101908051","price":46.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53020173926673,"sku":"GOR014699220","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53455765831953,"sku":"CIN110190805XG","price":34.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53619758334225,"sku":"CIN110190805XVG","price":39.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53720361435409,"sku":"NGR9781101908051","price":67.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/110190805X.jpg?v=1751269064","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/l-a-quartet-book-james-ellroy-9781101908051","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}