{"product_id":"white-jazz-by-james-ellroy","title":"White Jazz by James Ellroy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA novel in The L.A. Quartet. Internationally acclaimed author James Ellroy presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns—it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer—a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKlein's been hung out as bait, \"a bad cop to draw the heat,\" and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins—all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, \"forty-two and going on dead,\" it's dues time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKlein tells his own story—his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing—taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhite Jazz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is crime fiction at its most shattering.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woolly Bear Books and Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Paperback.","offer_id":56026390986918,"sku":"9780375727368","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/4637\/7638\/files\/91o67eVRi8L._SY466.jpg?v=1765838622","url":"https:\/\/woollybearbooks.com\/products\/white-jazz-by-james-ellroy","provider":"Woolly Bear Books and Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}