This Storm - James Ellroy

________________________'Ellroy writes with raw power ... Ellroy offers a grandiose, Wagnerian vision of wartime LA' SUNDAY TIMES________________________A brilliant historical crime novel, set in Los Angeles and Mexico during the pulse-pounding aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor.January, '42. L.A. undeniably one of the most influential crime writers of our time' THE TIMES'a tangled fever-dream ...

Local Japanese are rounded up and slammed behind bars. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Massive thunderstorms hit the city.

A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They're wrong.

It's an early-warning signal of Chaos. There's a murderous fire and a gold heist exploding out of the past. There's Fifth Column treason - at this moment, on American soil.

There are homegrown Nazis, commies and race racketeers. There's two dead cops in a dive off the jazz-club strip. And three men and one woman have a hot date with History.

Elmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop. He's a flesh peddler and a bagman for the L.A. Chief of Police.

Hideo Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, lashed by anti-Japanese rage. Dudley Smith is a PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. He's gone rogue and gone all-the-way fascist.

Joan Conville was born rogue. She's a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core. L.A., '42.

Homefront madness ascendant. Early-wartime inferno - This Storm is James Ellroy's most audacious novel yet. It is by turns savage, tender, elegiac.

It lays bare and celebrates crazed Americans of all stripes.________________________'Epic crime writing from a master' DAILY MAIL'Ellroy is unique. There is nobody writing this way ... Nobody has done or is doing what he is doing' BOOKMUNCH