White Jazz
James Ellroy
Random House
<p>Best-selling crime fiction author James Ellroy returns with the fourth in his LA Quartet.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Los Angeles, 1958: a city on the make. A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Lieutenant Dave Klein: in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord, mob killer. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence and death will intersect. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer&#8212;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.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>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&#8212;all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, "forty-two and going on dead," it's dues time...</p>