James Ellroy Knihy

Los Angeles, 1958: Mesto na počiatku novej éry plnej ziskov. Na prvý pohľad pokojné, ale len do tých čias, kým sa pavučina pekelného zla neomotá okolo jedného muža: Dava „Siláka“ Kleina, člena losangeleskej polície, ktorého prenasledujú nemravné túžby a temné tajomstvá. Mafia chce, aby umlčal federálneho svedka. Okresný prokurátor chce, aby zastrašil komunistického politika. Howard Hughes chce, aby našiel špinu na herečku, ktorá ním pohrdla. Jeho nadriadený, náčelník detektívov, chce, aby vyšetril brutálnu vlámačku, ktorá by mohla vrhnúť zlé svetlo na najvyššie miesta losangeleskej polície. K tomu sa pridáva istý štátny zástupca, ktorý chce Kleina zničiť. Dave Klein bude čoskoro stáť tvárou v tvár malému peklu, na ktoré sa premenilo jeho mesto. Je to svet, ktorý stvoril, svet, z ktorého sa za každú cenu usiluje vyviaznuť živý. Rozpráva svoj príbeh: „Už mi ostala iba vôľa pamätať si to.“ Jeho hlas je sekaný, príkry, často pôsobí rovnako surovo ako udalosti, ktoré opisuje. Kleinova vôľa sa nás dotkne, vydesí nás! Jeho príbeh, strhujúci a ostrý ani britva, prechádza špirálou času, keď všetko vrelo, keď boli kriminálne živly ovládané dobre

A novel of the Kennedy era, portraying the president in a far from flattering light. There are three protagonists: a CIA agent who pimps for JFK, another agent who trains anti-Castro rebels, and a lawyer who is a Mafia hunter. Through their eyes are seen the conflicting interests of the Kennedys, the director of the FBI, organized crime, organized labor, Castro and Cuban exiles.

"L.A. is a city where it's hard to tell the good guys from the bad. At Central Police Station, Christmas 1951, cops beat up six suspects. This will change the careers of the three LAPD detectives involved"--http://trove.nla.gov.au

This novel is set in Los Angeles, the city of angels that has become the city of the Angel of Death. It is about communist witch-hunts and about insanely violent killings which are terrorising the community.

It is Christmas, 1951, Los Angeles. A city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals, six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L.A.P.D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers

A young Las Vegas cop named Wayne Tedrow, Jr. travels through the 1960s, from JFK's assassination to Vietnam, unaware that J. Edgar Hoover is the one pulling the strings.

From the widely acclaimed author of" L.A. Confidential" comes the absorbing story of three man caught in a massive web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. ""The Big Nowhere" "makes you feel as if you are really in the Hollywood of 1950".--"The Wall Street Journal".

America's greatest crime writer investigates his mother's murder. On 21 June 1958, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy left her home in California. She was found strangled the next day. Her ten year-old son James had been with her estranged husband all weekend and was informed of her death on his return. Her murderer was never found, but her death had an enduring effect on her son - he spent his teens and early adult years as a wino, petty burglar and derelict. Only later, through his obsession with crime fiction, triggered by his mother's murder, did Ellroy begin to delve into his past. Shortly after the publication of his groundbreaking novel WHITE JAZZ, he determined to return to Los Angeles and, with the help of veteran detective Bill Stoner, attempt to solve the 38-year-old killing. The result is one of the few classics of crime non- fiction and autobiography to appear in the last few decades; a hypnotic trip to America's underbelly and one man's tortured soul.

Krimi. A political noir tale set during the summer of 1968 in which the lives of three men collide in the pursuit of the leftist shadow figure known as the Red Goddess Joan

Los Angeles - Fritz Brown, ex-alcoholic private eye with a stained past, makes do with car repossessions and classical music. Then he is offered a case by Freddy 'Fat Dog' Baker, an eccentric golf caddy whose sister has made off with a much older man. This is the beginning of the nightmare: the underworld of golf caddies arson and incest played against the backdrop of an LA surreal by night and bad by day; of long hidden secrets that will drive Brown back to the bottle and to the gun: all conspire to make this one of the most hypnotic crime novels ever written.