{"product_id":"9780099537779","title":"This Storm","description":"Author: Ellroy, James\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780099537779\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 17 Mar 2020\u003cbr\u003ePages: 608 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second novel in Ellroy's second 'L.A. Quartet', which began with the publication of \u003ci\u003ePerfidia\u003c\/i\u003e in 2014.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Ellroy writes with raw power ... undeniably one of the most influential crime writers of our time' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e'a tangled fever-dream ... Ellroy offers a grandiose, Wagnerian vision of wartime LA' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant historical crime novel, set in Los Angeles and Mexico during the pulse-pounding aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanuary, '42.\u003c\/b\u003e L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They're wrong. It's an early-warning signal of Chaos. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere's a murderous fire and a gold heist exploding out of the past. There's Fifth Column treason - at this moment, on American soil. There are homegrown Nazis, commies and race racketeers. There's two dead cops in a dive off the jazz-club strip. And three men and one woman have a hot date with History. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop. He's a flesh peddler and a bagman for the L.A. Chief of Police. Hideo Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, lashed by anti-Japanese rage. Dudley Smith is a PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. He's gone rogue and gone all-the-way fascist. Joan Conville was \u003ci\u003eborn\u003c\/i\u003e rogue. She's a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eL.A., '42.\u003c\/b\u003e Homefront madness ascendant. Early-wartime inferno - \u003ci\u003eThis Storm\u003c\/i\u003e is James Ellroy's most audacious novel yet. It is by turns savage, tender, elegiac. It lays bare and celebrates crazed Americans of all stripes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Epic crime writing from a master' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDAILY MAIL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Ellroy is unique. There is nobody writing this way ... Nobody has done or is doing what he is doing' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBOOKMUNCH\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48185152405662,"sku":"UBD-9780099537779","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780099537779.jpg?v=1787485966","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780099537779","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}