The L.A. James Ellroy imagines is a living thing a predator that feeds on human weakness devouring all and leaving few survivors all the more powerful and dis... » 

The L.A. James Ellroy imagines is a living thing a predator that feeds on human weakness devouring all and leaving few survivors all the more powerful and disturbing for its emotion honesty and raw atmospheric sting of truth. This is an author who has redefined the American crime novel with an unbroken string of exceptional works including L.A. Confidential Browns Requiem The Black Dahlia and American Tabloid and whose forceful uncompromising prose startles and roars and leaves the reader breathless and reeling. «