What is White Jazz about?
The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia.
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.
Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering.
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
White Jazz is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780517116227) and hardcover(ISBN 9780517165911) and hardcover(ISBN 9780679414490) and paperback(ISBN 9780449000885) and paperback(ISBN 9780449148419) and paperback(ISBN 9780375727368) and ebook(ISBN 9780307798428) and audiobook(ISBN 9780679412366) and audiobook(ISBN 9780736623230) and audiostreaming(ISBN 9780739354438) and audiostreaming(ISBN 9781415940549) and audiostreaming(ISBN 9781415940556) and audiodisc(ISBN 9781415940532) and audiodisc(ISBN 9780739354421)