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<p><b>'There has never been a writer like James Ellroy.'<i>Telegraph</i></b></p><p>Los Angeles, December 6, 1941. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. War fever and race hate grip the city and the internment of Japanese-Americans begins.</p><p>Following the hellish murder of a Japanese family, three men and one woman are summoned. William H. Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police. He's superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith - Irish émigré, ex-IRA killer and fledgling war profiteer. Kay Lake is a 21-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. Hideo Ashida is a brilliant police chemist and the only Japanese on the payroll.</p><p>Four driven souls - rivals, lovers, history's pawns - thrown into an investigation which will not only rip them apart but take America to the edge of the abyss at a crucial moment in its history.</p>

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JAMES ELLROY was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy <i>American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand</i>and<i>Blood's a Rover</i> and the L.A. Quartet novels,<i>The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.</i><i>A. Confidential</i>and<i>White Jazz.</i>He lives in Los Angeles.

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