James Ellroy
Author
Series
Underworld U.S.A. trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
CHOSEN BY TIME MAGAZINE AS ONE OF
THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
"ONE HELLISHLY EXCITING RIDE."
—Detroit Free Press
The '50s are finished. Zealous young senator Robert Kennedy has a red-hot jones to nail Jimmy Hoffa. JFK has his eyes on the Oval Office. J. Edgar Hoover is swooping down on the Red Menace. Howard Hughes is dodging subpoenas and digging up Kennedy dirt. And Castro is mopping up the bloody aftermath of his new...
THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
"ONE HELLISHLY EXCITING RIDE."
—Detroit Free Press
The '50s are finished. Zealous young senator Robert Kennedy has a red-hot jones to nail Jimmy Hoffa. JFK has his eyes on the Oval Office. J. Edgar Hoover is swooping down on the Red Menace. Howard Hughes is dodging subpoenas and digging up Kennedy dirt. And Castro is mopping up the bloody aftermath of his new...
Author
Series
Second L. A. quartet volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles over twenty-three days beginning on December 6, 1941. The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. The United States teeters on the edge of war. The roundup of allegedly treasonous Japanese Americans is about to begin. And in L.A., a Japanese family is found dead. Murder or ritual suicide? The investigation will draw four people into a totally Ellroy-ian tangle: a brilliant Japanese...
3) Pánico
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Freddy Otash es el hombre informado y el hombre a conocer en Tinseltown. Opera con dos reglas simples: hará cualquier cosa menos asesinar, y nunca trabajará con comunistas. Freddy es un policía corrupto de Los Ángeles en los patines. Ejecutó a un asesino de policías llamado Horvath y lo cornea. Así que el Capitán 'Whiskey' Bill Parker lo enlata. Ahora, Freddy se pone una variedad de nuevos sombreros: detective privado sórdido, artista de...
Author
Series
Second L. A. quartet volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From "one of the great American writers of our time" (Los Angeles Times Book Review)--a brilliant historical crime novel, a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles and Mexico in the wake in Pearl Harbor. New Year's Eve 1941, war has been declared and the Japanese internment is in full swing. Los Angeles is gripped by war fever and racial hatred. Sergeant Dudley Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department is now Army Captain...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in Tinseltown. He operates with two simple rules--he'll do anything but murder, and he'll never work with commies. Freddy is a corrupt L.A. cop on the skids. He executed a cop killer named Horvath and it gores him. So Captain "Whiskey" Bill Parker cans him. Now, Freddy dons an array of new hats--sleazoid private eye, shakedown artist, matchmaker for Rock Hudson, pimp for President John F. Kennedy--and,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. The freewheeling Freddy O. Tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim "Opportunity is Love." Freddy gets to work....
Author
Series
Underworld U.S.A. trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Series
L. A. quartet volume 4
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
13) Esta tormenta
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
James Ellroy retoma la historia de Perfidia con esta nueva y brutal entrega del segundo. Cuarteto de Los Ángeles, durante los años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Enero de 1942. Los Ángeles se tambalea después del shock de Pearl Harbor. Lluvias torrenciales azotan la ciudad. Las autoridades detienen y confinan en campos de internamiento a los japoneses afincados en Estados Unidos. En Griffith Park un cadáver queda al descubierto tras un corrimiento...
Author
Series
L. A. noir trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Twenty random murders of women remain unconnected in police files. But Det. Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins sees a pattern. In a shattering climax, cold, icy intelligence and white-heated madness are pitted against each other.
Author
Series
L. A. noir trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A hero cop is missing. Nobody could see a pattern in these two stray bits of information-no one except Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins, a brilliant and disturbed L.A. cop with an obsessive desire to protect the innocent. To him they lead to one horrifying conclusion--a killer is on the loose and preying on his city.
16) Suicide hill
Author
Series
L. A. noir trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins is the most brilliant homicide detective in the Los Angeles Police Department and one of its most troubled. In his obsessive mission to protect the innocent, there is no line he won't cross. Estranged from his wife and daughters and on the verge of being drummed out of the department for his transgressions, Hopkins is assigned to investigate a series of bloody bank robberies. As the violence escalates and the case...
19) Rampart
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Set in 1999 Los Angeles, an unethical police officer becomes a target when his division gets caught up in a corruption scandal.
20) Street kings
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of his former partner, Detective Terrance Washington, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him. He teams up with a young detective to track down Washington's killers, who track down the murderers...