Le quatuor de Los Angeles

Ma part d'ombre est le récit d'une double enquête que mène ellroy sur l'assassinat de sa mère, tuée le 22 juin 1958, et sur sa propre vie d'enfant orphelin, d'adolescent perturbé et d'écrivain hanté.
 Voyage à travers ses souvenirs les plus secrets, ce livre est aussi un reportage sur le crime en amérique, et en particulier les meurtres de femmes, d'autant plus saisissant qu'ellroy a travaillé aux côtés d'un policier de la brigade criminelle de los angeles, bill stoner, qui a tissé des liens de plus en plus forts avec l'auteur au fil des mois.

Ma part d'ombre

America's master of noir delivers his masterpiece, a rip-roaring, devilishly wild ride through the bloody end of the 1960's. It's dark baby, and hot hot hot. Martin Luther King assassinated. Robert Kennedy assassinated. Los Angeles, 1968. Conspiracies theories are taking hold. On the horizon looms the Democratic Convention in Chicago and constant gun fire peppers south L.A. Violence, greed, and grime, are replacing free-love and everybody from Howard Hughes, Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover to the right-wing assassins and left-wing revolutionaries are getting dirty. At the center of it all is a triumvirate: the president’s strong-arm goon, an ex-cop and heroine runner, and a private eye whose quarry is so dangerous she could set off the whole powder keg. With his trademark deadly staccato prose, James Ellroy holds nothing back in this wild, startling and much anticipated conclusion to his Underworld USA trilogy. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Underworld Usa

Quatuor Los Angeles Tome 3

"Des écrivains comme ça, dans le roman noir, on en découvre un tous les dix ans."  Michel Lebrun, le matin. 
"Opéra noir, peuplé de fantômes, où le sexe et la mort rôdent sans cesse dans l'immensité inhumaine de los angeles la mal nommée, lune sanglante est un fulgurant joyau, une moderne tragédie, qui porte fièrement en exergue une citation du Richard II de Shakespeare." Bernard Audusse, Le Monde. 
"... Un des plus remarquables romans noirs de la décennie, par sa préoccupation intellectuelle élevée, son écriture savante et, pour le dire balistiquement, son épouvantable puissance d'arrêt..." Jean-Patrick Manchette, Libération. 
"... Violence sadique et psychologie se partagent les 288 pages d'un ouvrage qui marque un nouveau sommet du roman noir." Michel Renaud, Le Dauphiné.

Lune sanglante

Set in America in 1958, this is a story of three men beneath the glossy surface of power, allied to the makers and shakers of the era. As the festering discontent of the age burns in these men's hearts, the Bay of Pigs ends in calamity, the Mob clamours for payback, and Kennedy is assassinated.

American tabloid

Trilogie noire

Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's 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.Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad cop to draw the heat," and the heat's 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," it's dues time.Klein tells his own story--his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing--taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll 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.

Le quatuor de Los Angeles

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