Clandestine
$34.41
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2013
Summary
1951 - Frederick Underhill, an ambitious rookie of the Los Angeles Police Department, wants to become the most celebrated detective of his time. He is also sexually promiscuous. His two drives are brought together by the slaying of Maggie Cadwallader, a lonely woman whom Underhill slept with shortly before her death.
Using his inside knowledge, Underhill gets himself on the case, which is being handled by LA’s most fearsome investigator: Lieutenant Dudley Smith. But instead of the cel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099558880 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099558882 |
| Author: | James Ellroy |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Windmill Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2013 |
| Weight: | 258g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Windmill Books |
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One of the most original and daring writers alive
One of the most original and daring writers alive * Independent on Sunday *
The most distinctive crime writer of his generation * Sunday Times *
Ellroy is a unique voice in American fiction * Jonathan Kellerman *
One of the most important popular fiction writers in America, whose best books take their readers to the darkest places of the human condition - a Tinseltown Dostoevsky * Time Out *
James Ellroy
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed ‘LA Quartet’: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential, and White Jazz. His most recent novel, Blood’s a Rover, completes the magisterial ‘Underworld USA Trilogy’ - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers.
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