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Author : D K Thomas
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291093311
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Ellroy Deflection written by D K Thomas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 1447871758
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (478 download)
Download or read book written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494973063
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Ellroy Deflection written by D. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Bates is undercover, tasked with infiltrating a criminal syndicate with a view to reaching the infamously anonymous mastermind that heads it. Knowledge of his assignment is limited to his Chief Inspector and another Detective, Palahniuk, a divorced and disgruntled veteran, who is finding his workload demanding enough with a serial killer to catch and leads being thin on the ground.When their cover story comes back to bite them, they are forced to bring in an ambitious detective to act as Bates' wife. The following months result in tragedy and Bates' despairing freefall as manipulation and murder draws Bates and Palahniuk deeper into an investigation that Palahniuk had hoped to distance himself from. A series of unexpected and mysterious events present them with moral dilemmas and stomach-wrenching challenges as their probing uncovers a system of corruption that flows through the many strata of society. A variety of characters fuel a labyrinth plot of tragedy, murder, mystery and suspense, which blurs the distinction between those who are on the wrong side of the law and those who are teetering on the brink.The Ellroy Deflection is the debut novel from D K Thomas. During its development, it was shown on Harper Collins' community site for writers, authonomy. Here is a selection of comments from reader reviews:"Gritty characters, a convolute plot and believable dialogue. A classy crime story."-Jim Darcy"A most entertaining read and something I would grab in a bookshop. Backed, with pleasure."-Sheila Belshaw"A really good read. You have a talent for writing this type of story and you should go far, given the opportunity."-Fromante"I like your down-to-earth voice and your style. This is an easy, enjoyable read."-Thomas J Winton"Hell, the only book where I am interested enough to read beyond the first few lines. Not a book, a phenomenon."-Alfred Sedrick"Well written, atmospheric and it has my support."-Tim Chambers"Talented writing and a real gifted imagination. Backed 100% - a book I'd buy."-Lizjrnm"Great storytelling and an easy read."-Richard Allen"Well done indeed. The pacing is good, enabling us to enjoy the robbery and the manner in which it was carried out. I am eager to read more, which is a sure sign of a fine read. The level of curiosity is high. The writer's voice is excellent and the style is very much his own."-Suzannah Burke
Author : D K Thomas
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 144789961X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Barren Endeavour written by D K Thomas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-29 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of The Great Depression, a man travels east whilst the desperate many travel west in search of the elusive Promised Land. It is 1934 and Jack Gray, family man and farmer from Nebraska, has embarked upon a compelling trek across the states with New York City being his destination.A drifter looking for work on Jack's farm has mistakenly identified Jack as a gangster from the Big Apple that had mysteriously disappeared years earlier, leaving furious enemies baying for blood. The transient flees before being convinced that he was wrong. Jack's father is then forced to reveal the startling family secret, meaning Jack has to depart in an attempt to intercept the stranger intent on leading a pack mobsters back to Jack's home.Leaving his family during the most desperate of times, Jack must rely on his own resilience and strangers along his journey, where the horizon is often as remote as his chances of catching the desperate drifter hungry for redemption salvaged from a life in exile.
Author : James Ellroy
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 038080896X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Killer on the Road written by James Ellroy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Michael Plunkett is a product of his times -- the possessor of a genius intellect, a pitiless soul of brushed steel, and a heart of blackest evil. With criminal tendencies forged in the fires of L.A.'s Charles Manson hysteria, he comes to the bay city of San Francisco -- and submits to savage and terrible impulses that reveal to him his true vocation as a pure and perfect murderer. And so begins his decade of discovery and terror, as he cuts a bloody swath across the full length of a land, ingeniously exploiting and feeding upon a society's obsessions. As he maneuvers deftly through a seamy world of drugs, flesh, and perversions, the media will call him many things -- but Martin Plunkett's real name is Death. His brilliant, twisted mind is a horriying place to explore. His madness reflects a nation's own. The killer is on the road. And there's nowhere in America to hide.
Author : Peter Wolfe
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739120026
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Like Hot Knives to the Brain written by Peter Wolfe and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Ellroy's prose, in many ways as complex as any in the Western literary canon, strung together sensational stories of crime and catastrophe. The significance of his writing to Western culture has yet to be fully explored. Author Peter Wolfe offers us the first book-length study of Ellroy in English.
Author : Steven Powell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501331345
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Big Somewhere written by Steven Powell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Ellroy's identity as a crime writer is rooted in his extraordinary life story and relationship with his home city of Los Angeles. Beginning with the unsolved murder of his mother, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy, in 1958, Ellroy's early life played a large role in shaping his obsessions with murder, the criminal underworld of L.A. and the redemptive power of the feminine. Ellroy's life could be seen as a brutal, visceral and emotionally exhausting realisation of the American Dream, a theme he has explored in his writing to the extent that he is credited with reinventing crime fiction. The Big Somewhere: Essays on James Ellroy's Noir World is an in-depth, scholarly study of the work of James Ellroy, featuring leading Ellroy scholars such as Anna Flügge, Jim Mancall and Rodney Taveira. Moving from Ellroy's early detective novels to his later epic works of historical fiction, it explores how Ellroy found his place in the history of the genre by building on, and then surpassing, the works of authors who influenced him such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Joseph Wambaugh. It also examines Ellroy's impact on contemporary writers and on the cultural perception of L.A., which has been his legacy through the L.A. Quartet novels. The 'Big Somewhere' is not a geographical location, but a conglomeration of the cinematic, historical and fictional worlds that influenced Ellroy, from film noir to the Kennedy era in American politics, and on which he, in turn, has left his mark.
Author : James Ellroy
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446504467
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)
Download or read book The Black Dahlia written by James Ellroy and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly acclaimed novel based on America's most infamous unsolved murder case. Dive into 1940s Los Angeles as two cops spiral out of control in their hunt for The Black Dahlia's killer in this powerful thriller that is "brutal and at the same time believable" (New York Times). On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia -- and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history. Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia -- driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl's twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches -- into a region of total madness.
Author : D. E. Johnson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250036488
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Detroit Shuffle written by D. E. Johnson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Anderson and Elizabeth Hume get caught up in the political turmoil over women's suffrage in Detroit Shuffle, the fourth book in D. E. Johnson's critically acclaimed 1910s Detroit series Will Anderson inadvertently breaks up a key suffrage rally when he thwarts a gunman set on killing his lover, Elizabeth Hume. No one else saw the man, and Elizabeth believes he hallucinated the entire incident, a side effect of the radium "treatment" he received at Eloise Hospital. She asks him to sit on the sidelines while she and her companions try to get the women's suffrage amendment passed by Michigan voters. Instead, Will sets out to protect Elizabeth and prove his sanity. Will's nemesis, Sapphira Xanakis, contacts him with news of a conspiracy to defeat the amendment, led by Andrew Murphy, head of the Michigan Licensed Beverage Association. Against his better judgment, Will believes she is trying to help. The man she directs him to dies under suspicious circumstances. An old acquaintance of Will's, who is working for the MLBA, is shot and killed in front of him. Still, no one believes Will, including his former ally, Detective Riordan, who not only is unwilling to help, but seems to have secrets of his own. With new death threats against Elizabeth and the next rally only a few days away, Will has to unravel a complicated tapestry of blackmail, double-dealing, conspiracy, and murder—before the killer has his next chance to strike. Johnson's immaculate plotting and high-tension writing make for a spellbinding read set in early twentieth-century Detroit.
Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307813479
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Barney's Version written by Mordecai Richler and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charged with comic energy and a steely disregard for any pieties whatsoever, Barney's Version is a major Richler novel, the most personal and feeling book of a long and distinguished career. Told in the first person, it gives us the life (and what a life!) of Barney Panofsky--whose trashy TV company, Totally Useless Productions, has made him a small fortune; whose three wives include a martyred feminist icon, a quintessential JCP (Jewish-Canadian Princess), and the incomparable Miriam, the perfect wife, lover, and mother--alas, now married to another man; who recalls with nostalgia and pain his young manhood in the Paris of the early fifties, and his lifelong passion for wine, women, and the Montreal Canadiens; who either did or didn't murder his best friend, Boogie, after discovering him in bed with The Second Mrs. Panofsky; whose satirical eye for the idiocies of today's Quebec separatists (as well as for every other kind of political correctness) manages to offend his entire acquaintanceship (and will soon be offending readers everywhere); and whose memory--though not his bile--is, in his sixty-seventh year, definitely slipping . . .
Author : Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 0748131930
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Be My Enemy written by Christopher Brookmyre and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth book in the Jack Parlabane series, from author Christopher Brookmyre. It was a junket, a freebie. A 'team-building' weekend in the highlands for lawyers, advertising execs, businessmen, even the head of a charity. Oh, and a journalist, specially solicited for his renowned and voluble scepticism - Jack Parlabane. Amid the flying paintballs and flowing Shiraz even the most cynical admit the organisers have pulled some surprises - stalkers in the forest, power cuts in the night, mass mobile phone thefts, disappearing staff, disappearing guests: there's nothing can bring out people's hidden strengths or break down inter-personal barriers quite like not having a clue what's going on and being scared out of your wits. However, when the only vehicular access for thirty miles is cut off it seems that events are being orchestrated not just for pleasure ... And that's before they find the first body. Thereafter, 'finding out who your colleagues really are' is not so much an end product as the key to reaching Monday morning alive.
Author : James Ellroy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593312279
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Suicide Hill written by James Ellroy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 becomes ever more vicious, Hopkins will be forced to cross the line once again to stop a maniac on a murder binge.
Author : James Ellroy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 059331221X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Brown's Requiem written by James Ellroy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the slick, glittering surface of L.A., an underworld of depravity and wickedness reins. Fritz Brown is a part-time private eye and full-time repo-man who gets his kicks listening to classical music. But the waters get too deep for Brown when he takes a case from a cash-flashing golf caddy named Freddy “Fat Dog” Baker that puts him on the trail of his client’s sister and the older gentleman she’s run off with. But more suspicious than his sister, a classy cellist, is Fat Dog himself, who has a past more sordid than he lets on. Diving into a cesspool of payoffs, incest, and arson, Brown’s California dreaming transforms into a technicolor nightmare. In his hypnotic debut, master crime writer James Ellroy takes us to the edge of an abyss, where nothing, not even Beethoven, can let in the light.
Author : James Ellroy
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 1101908041
Total Pages : 1179 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I written by James Ellroy and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 1179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "America was never innocent." Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. It's James Ellroy's pop history of the 1960s, his window-peeper's view of government misconduct, his dirty trickster's take on the great events of an incendiary era. It's a tour de force of the American idiom, and an acknowledged masterpiece. American Tabloid gives us Jack Kennedy's ride, seen from an insider's perspective. We're there for the rigged 1960 election. We're there for the Bay of Pigs fiasco. We're the eyes and ears and souls of three rogue cops who've signed on for the ride and come to see Jack as their betrayer. We're Jack's pimps and hatchet men, and we're there for that baroque slaying in Dallas. The Cold Six Thousand takes us from Dallas to Vietnam to Memphis to the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in L.A. We're rubbing shoulders with RFK and MLK, calamitous klansmen, noted mafiosi. We're forced to relive the American sixties--and we come away breathless. The first two books of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy revisit the most anarchic decade in our history. They are defined by their brutal linguistic flair and reckless panache.
Author : Henry E. Scott
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307378977
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Shocking True Story written by Henry E. Scott and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humphrey Bogart said of Confidential: “Everybody reads it but they say the cook brought it into the house” . . . Tom Wolfe called it “the most scandalous scandal magazine in the history of the world” . . . Time defined it as “a cheesecake of innuendo, detraction, and plain smut . . . dig up one sensational ‘fact,’ embroider it for 1,500 to 2,000 words. If the subject thinks of suing, he may quickly realize that the fact is true, even if the embroidery is not.” Here is the never-before-told tale of Confidential magazine, America’s first tabloid, which forever changed our notion of privacy, our image of ourselves, and the practice of journalism in America. The magazine came out every two months, was printed on pulp paper, and cost a quarter. Its pages were filled with racy stories, sex scandals, and political exposés. It offered advice about the dangers of cigarettes and advocated various medical remedies. Its circulation, at the height of its popularity, was three million. It was first published in 1952 and took the country by storm. Readers loved its lurid red-and-yellow covers; its sensational stories filled with innuendo and titillating details; its articles that went far beyond most movie magazines, like Photoplay and Modern Screen, and told the real stories such trade publications as Variety and the Hollywood Reporter couldn’t, since they, and the movie magazines, were financially dependent on—or controlled by—the Hollywood studios. In Confidential’s pages, homespun America was revealed as it really was: our most sacrosanct movie stars and heroes were exposed as wife beaters (Bing Crosby), homosexuals (Rock Hudson and Liberace), neglectful mothers (Rita Hayworth), sex obsessives (June Allyson, the cutie with the page boy and Peter Pan collar), mistresses of the rich and dangerous (Kim Novak, lover of Ramfis Trujillo, playboy son of the Dominican Republic dictator). Confidential’s alliterative headlines told of tawny temptresses (black women passing for white), pinko partisans (liberals), lisping lads (homosexuals) . . . and promised its readers what the newspapers wouldn’t reveal: “The Real Reason for Marilyn Monroe’s Divorce” . . . How “James Dean Knew He Had a Date with Death” . . . The magazine’s style, success, and methods ultimately gave birth to the National Enquirer, Star, People, E!, Access Hollywood, and TMZ . . . We see the two men at the magazine’s center: its founder and owner, Robert Harrison, a Lithuanian Jew from New York’s Lower East Side who wrote for The New York Graphic and published a string of girlie magazines, including Titter, Wink, and Flirt (Bogart called the magazine’s founder and owner the King of Leer) . . . and Confidential ’s most important editor: Howard Rushmore, small-town boy from a Wyoming homestead; passionate ideologue; former member of the Communist Party who wrote for the Daily Worker, renounced his party affiliation, and became a virulent Red-hunter; close pal of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and expert witness before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, naming the names of actors and writers Rushmore claimed had been Communists and fellow travelers. Henry Scott writes the story of two men, who out of their radically different pasts and conflicting obsessions, combined to make the magazine the perfect confluence of explosive ingredients that reflected the America of its time, as the country struggled to reconcile Hollywood’s blissful fantasy of American life with the daunting nightmare of the nuclear age . . .
Author : James Ellroy
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0593314778
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Enchanters written by James Ellroy and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • James Ellroy—Demon Dog of American Letters—goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe death myth in an astonishing, behind-the-headlines crime epic. “James Ellroy, the neo-noir eminence of L.A. crime fiction, is back, with his favorite snake, Fred Otash, in tow. . . . And he sure can shoulder a novel." —Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker Los Angeles, August 4, 1962. The city broils through a midsummer 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. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe’s death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle. We are with him as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth. We are with him as he penetrates the faux-sunshine of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the shuck of Camelot. We are with him as he falters, and grasps for love beyond opportunity. We are with him as he tracks Marilyn Monroe’s horrific last charade through a nightmare L.A. that he served to create — and as he confronts his complicity and his own raging madness. It’s the Summer of ’62, baby. Freddy O’s got a hot date with history. The savage Sixties are ready to pop. It’s just a shot away. The Enchanters is a transcendent work of American popular fiction. It is James Ellroy at his most crazed, brilliant, provocative, profanely hilarious, and stop-your-heart tender. It is a luminous psychological drama and an unparalleled thrill ride. It is, resoundingly, the great American crime novel.
Author : Kaoru Takamura
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641290307
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Lady Joker, Volume 2 written by Kaoru Takamura and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A novel that portrays with devastating immensity how those on the dark fringes of society can be consumed by the darkness of their own hearts.” —Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police This second half of Lady Joker, by Kaoru Takamura, the Grand Dame of Japanese crime fiction, concludes the breathtaking saga introduced in Volume I. Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case that terrorized Japan for two years, Lady Joker reimagines the circumstances of this watershed episode in modern Japanese history and brings into riveting focus the lives and motivations of the victims, the perpetrators, the heroes and the villains. As the shady networks linking corporations to syndicates are brought to light, the stakes rise, and some of the professionals we have watched try to fight their way through this crisis will lose everything—some even their lives. Will the culprits ever be brought to justice? More importantly—what is justice?
