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This Storm

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This Storm

Auteur(s): James Ellroy
Narrateur(s): Craig Wasson
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January '42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese residents are rounded up and slammed behind bars. 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. There's Fifth Column treason on American soil. There are homegrown Nazis, Commies, and race racketeers. It's populism ascendant. 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 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. 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. It is a masterpiece. Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique Roman noir Roman policier Émotionnellement captivant Guerre
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Praise for James Ellroy:

“One of the great American writers of our time.”
—Los Angeles Times

“Ask me to name the best living novelist who’s fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted, and paranoid . . . and it becomes simple: James Ellroy. If insanity illuminated by highly dangerous strokes of literary lightning is your thing, then Ellroy’s your man.”
—Stephen King

“James Ellroy is the American Dostoevsky.”
—Joyce Carol Oates
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Unfortunately this is the first Ellroy book that wandered and meandered too far and long for me. I have never lost interest in an Ellroy book but this one lost me at times. on the other hand, the detailed brilliance of some moments - truly drew me in.

Ellroys classic style

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