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Clandestine

By James Ellroy

By James Ellroy

By James Ellroy

By James Ellroy

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    About Clandestine

    In James Ellroy’s riveting second novel, an ambitious beat cop is hot on the trail of a serial killer who frequents L.A. dive bars and preys on the fallen women he finds there.

    Los Angeles, 1951. For Officer Fred Underhill, the job is all about the wonder, an elusive quality he finds while dealing with the city’s drunks, hopheads, gunsels, and burglars. When he’s not reveling in the glory of cleaning up the streets, he’s on the green or scoring women. But Underhill’s ambition and allegiance to the badge get the better of him when a grim opportunity to prove his worth arises. Catching a serial strangler who is snuffing out women would all but ensure his place at the top. As he climbs his way up, the hungry rookie wheels and deals with some of the force’s most unscrupulous officers, and when the case goes sideways and fast, the eyes of the very law he serves will be trained on him. Now Underhill’s only chance to redeem himself is to pick up the trail of the soulless killer and close the case himself.

    About Clandestine

    In James Ellroy’s riveting second novel, an ambitious beat cop is hot on the trail of a serial killer who frequents L.A. dive bars and preys on the fallen women he finds there.

    Los Angeles, 1951. For Officer Fred Underhill, the job is all about the wonder, an elusive quality he finds while dealing with the city’s drunks, hopheads, gunsels, and burglars. When he’s not reveling in the glory of cleaning up the streets, he’s on the green or scoring women. But Underhill’s ambition and allegiance to the badge get the better of him when a grim opportunity to prove his worth arises. Catching a serial strangler who is snuffing out women would all but ensure his place at the top. As he climbs his way up, the hungry rookie wheels and deals with some of the force’s most unscrupulous officers, and when the case goes sideways and fast, the eyes of the very law he serves will be trained on him. Now Underhill’s only chance to redeem himself is to pick up the trail of the soulless killer and close the case himself.

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    The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I
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    About James Ellroy

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

    About James Ellroy

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

    Product Details

    Category: Crime Mysteries | Noir Mysteries

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 16, 2021 | 448 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780593312223

    Category: Crime Mysteries | Noir Mysteries

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 16, 2021 | 352 Pages | ISBN 9780593312230

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    Praise for James Ellroy

    “Ellroy rips into American culture like a chainsaw in an abattoir.” —Time

    “Ellroy is the master.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune

    “One of the most important popular fiction writers in America, whose best books take their readers to the darkest places of the human condition–a Tinseltown Dostoevsky.” —Time Out

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