Perfidia: A novel

Perfidia: A novel

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It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americansâ‚¬"but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins.

The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. William H. Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police Department. Heâ‚¬s superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious, liquored-up, and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smithâ‚¬"Irish Â©migrÂ©, 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 soulsâ‚¬"comrades, rivals, lovers, historyâ‚¬s pawns.
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Perfidia is a novel of astonishments. It is World War II as you have never seen it, and Los Angeles as James Ellroy has never written it before. Here, he gives us the party at the edge of the abyss and the precipice of Americaâ‚¬s ascendance. Perfidia is that moment, spellbindingly captured. It beckons us to solve a great crime that, in its turn, explicates the crime of war itself. It is a great American novel.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber BBC956996
ReleaseDate 2014-09-09
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780307956996

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	BBC956996
ReleaseDate	2014-09-09
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780307956996

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