White Jazz (L. A. Quartet)
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Los Angeles 1958. Killings beatings bribes shakedowns--its standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein LAPD. Hes a slumlord a bagman an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption and everything goes haywire. Kleins been hung out as bait "a bad cop to draw the heat " and the heats coming from all sides: from local politicians from LAPD brass from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein "forty-two and going on dead " its dues time. Klein tells his own story--his voice clipped sharp often as brutal as the events hes describing--taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition avarice and perversion. Its a world he created but now hell do anything to get out of it alive. Fierce riveting and honed to a razor edge White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering. From the Trade Paperback edition.
