L.A. Confidential, James Ellroy
L.A. Confidential, James Ellroy
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L.A. Confidential

Author: James Ellroy

Series: L. A. Quartet

Narrator: David Strathairn

Abridged: 3 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/13/2007

Synopsis

Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals.

Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L. A. P. D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers.

About The Author

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz, the Second L.A. Quartet: Perfidia, and the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s a Rover. These novels have won numerous honors and were international bestsellers. Ellroy currently lives in Los Angeles.David Strathairn was born in 1949 in San Francisco, California. After attending Williams College and hitchhiking across the country to perform in various local theaters, he made his film debut in the highly regarded Return of the Secaucus Seven. Over the years that followed Strathairn built up his resume with an impressive collection of supporting roles. Among his credits are Lovesick, Silkwood, L.A. Confidential, Limbo, We Are Marshall, Lincoln, and many others. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance in Good Night, and Good Luck.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on October 25, 2016

We’ve all heard of the Good-Cop/Bad-Cop routine, but when you read a James Ellroy novel it’s more like Bad-Cop/Worse-Cop/Crimes-Against-Humanity-Cop. This third installment in the L.A. Quartet introduces us to another trio of police officers who wouldn't last ten minutes on the job if there were smar......more

Goodreads review by Baba on August 02, 2021

This L.A. set, ultra-dark, detailed, complex and completely riveting police conspiracy thriller set mostly in the 1950s centres round the 'Night Owl' coffee house murders of six customers. The story is founded on a devastating police abuse of power that involves the three main (police) protagonists......more

Goodreads review by Richard on January 11, 2016

L.A. Confidential feels like the book that James Ellroy has been preparing for and working up to during his entire career up to this point. He takes all of the themes he explored in previous novels and packs them into a book that's an even larger, more epic tale of crime, perversion, and Hollywood c......more

Goodreads review by Francesc on August 16, 2020

Extraordinaria novela. Los personajes y la ambientación son fantásticos. Después de Chandler, Ellroy está en la cumbre en cuanto a plasmar la vida y la muerte en Los Ángeles y todo su mundo. A diferencia de la película, al final, la acción transcurre bastantes años después. En cambio, en la película, e......more

Goodreads review by Tim on August 17, 2018

Hey everyone, it's my 100th review on goodreads!!!!!! No, wait, this is a dark and brooding noir. Can't be that happy. Think mean thoughts. Take a shot glass of despair, with a nihilistic chaser and a cheap cigarette. There we go. Spanning from 1950 to 58, L.A. Confidential stands as easily the most......more

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