About this book
<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER <br>AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><br><br>Los Angeles. December, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. War fever and racial hatred grip the city.<br> <br> The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. LAPD captain William H. Parker is superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious, liquored-up, and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith—Irish émigré, ex-IRA killer, fledgling war profiteer. Hideo Ashida is a police chemist and the only Japanese on the L.A. cop payroll. Kay Lake is a twenty-one-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. The investigation throws them together and rips them apart. The crime becomes a political storm center that brilliantly illuminates these four driven souls—comrades, rivals, lovers, history’s pawns.<br> <br> Here, Ellroy gives us the party at the edge of the abyss and the precipice of America’s ascendance. <i>Perfidia</i> <i>is</i> that moment, spellbindingly captured.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Published
- 2015
- Pages
- 701
- ISBN
- 9780307946676
- Language
- en
About James Ellroy
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels *The Black Dahlia* (1987), *The Big Nowhere* (1988), *L.A. Confidential* (1990), *White Jazz* (1992), *American Tabloid* (1995), *The Cold Six Thousand* (2001), and *Blood's a Rover* (2009). *-- Wikipedia*
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