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- catalog abstract "Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns -- it's all in a day's work for Lieutenant Dave Klein, Los Angeles Police Department. Trained as a lawyer in school, schooled as a strongarm on the street, bought and paid for by the mob, there's nothing he's not into and nobody's better at any of it. But in the fall of 1958, when the Feds announce a full-out investigation into police corruption, everything goes haywire. Suddenly, the game Klein thought he was running has a new set of rules -- and they're not his. He'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 dirty secrets hidden. For Klein, "forty-two and going on dead," it's dues time. And it's Klein who tells his own story -- his voice clipped and sharp and as brutal as the events he's describing -- taking us with him on a hellish journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, greed, and perversion. It's a world he helped create, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive ... Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor-edge, White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering, and the most explosive novel yet from James Ellroy.".
- catalog contributor b3799798.
- catalog coverage "Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction.".
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns -- it's all in a day's work for Lieutenant Dave Klein, Los Angeles Police Department. Trained as a lawyer in school, schooled as a strongarm on the street, bought and paid for by the mob, there's nothing he's not into and nobody's better at any of it. But in the fall of 1958, when the Feds announce a full-out investigation into police corruption, everything goes haywire. Suddenly, the game Klein thought he was running has a new set of rules -- and they're not his. He'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 dirty secrets hidden. For Klein, "forty-two and going on dead," it's dues time. And it's Klein who tells his own story -- his voice clipped and sharp and as brutal as the events he's describing -- taking us with him on a hellish journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, greed, and perversion. It's a world he helped create, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive ... Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor-edge, White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering, and the most explosive novel yet from James Ellroy.".
- catalog extent "349 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "White jazz.".
- catalog identifier "0679414495 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "White jazz.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Knopf,".
- catalog relation "White jazz.".
- catalog spatial "California Los Angeles".
- catalog spatial "Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 20".
- catalog subject "Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3555.L6274 W45 1992".
- catalog subject "Police California Los Angeles Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Police corruption California Los Angeles Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Police corruption Fiction.".
- catalog title "White jazz : a novel / by James Ellroy.".
- catalog type "Detective and mystery stories. gsafd".
- catalog type "Detective and mystery stories. lcgft".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "Mystery fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".