White Jazz
by James Ellroy
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. 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.
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.
Klein tells his own story--his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing--taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive.
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White Jazz
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780679414490 ISBN 10: 0679414495
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday 1992
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White Jazz
Format: Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 9780449148419 ISBN 10: 0449148416
Publisher: Fawcett 1993
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White Jazz
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ISBN: 9780449000885 ISBN 10: 0449000885
Publisher: Ballantine Books 1997
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White Jazz
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ISBN: 9780375727368 ISBN 10: 0375727361
Publisher: Vintage Books 2001
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