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.
Publisher: Cornerstone
ISBN: 9780099558873
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 181 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
The man who calls himself the "demon dog" of American crime fiction is still the classiest act around. - Daily Mail
The outstanding American crime writer of his generation. - Independent
Ellroy is a master at juggling plot lines, using a stripped, spare noir style that hits like a cleaver but is honed like a scalpel - Chicago Tribune
An undeniably artful frenzy of violence, guilt and unappeased self-loathing. Ellroy's crime fiction represents a high mark in the genre - New York Newsday
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