Buch Details
"There has never been a writer like James Ellroy." (Telegraph). Los Angeles, December 6, 1941. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. War fever and race hate grip the city and the internment of Japanese Americans begins. When a Japanese family is found brutally murdered, three men and one woman are summoned. William H Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police force. He's superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith - Irish emigre, ex-IRA killer and fledgling war profiteer. Kay Lake is a 21-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. Hideo Ashida is a brilliant police chemist and the only Japanese on the payroll. Four driven souls - rivals, lovers, history's pawns - thrown into an investigation which will not only rip them apart but take America to the edge of the abyss at a crucial moment in its history.
- Einband Taschenbuch
- Schriftsteller Ellroy, James
- ISBN13 9780099537755
- ISBN10 0099537753
- Buchseiten 816
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2015
- Sprache Englisch
Perfidia
- Autor/in James Ellroy
- Verlag VINTAGE
- ISBN 9780099537755
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