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Perfidia

By James Ellroy

Perfidia Historical Fiction

Perfidia

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Los Angeles. December, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. War fever and racial hatred grip the city. The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. LAPD captain William H. Parker is superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious, liquored-up, and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith-Irish émigré, ex-IRA killer, fledgling war profiteer. Hideo Ashida is a police chemist and the only Japanese on the L.A. cop payroll. Kay Lake is a twenty-one-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. The investigation throws them together and rips them apart. The crime becomes a political storm center that brilliantly illuminates these four driven souls-comrades, rivals, lovers, history's pawns. Here, Ellroy gives us the party at the edge of the abyss and the precipice of America's ascendance. Perfidia is that moment, spellbindingly captured.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
720
Release Date:
2015-07-07
Publication Date:
2015-07-07
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0307946673
ISBN13:
9780307946676
Weight:
496 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
205 cm
Thickness:
35 cm
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