Ex-policier reconverti dans la surveillance, l'extorsion et le chantage, pourvoyeur de scoops pour le magazine Confidential, Fred Otash croupit au purgatoire. Les autorités célestes lui proposent une "remise de peine" s'il écrit ses confessions... avec l'aide d'un auteur nommé James Ellroy.

Extorsion - Suivi de Perfidia

Il n'y a pas que les enquêtes de police qui soient "clandestine" dans ce roman de James Ellroy. Il y a aussi les ambitions, les liaisons amoureuses et sexuelles, les pulsions, les violences, les vies anodines, les morts atroces, les rédemptions. elles mèneront l'agent de police Freddy Underhill sur la piste d'un tueur de femmes pendant " les dernières années de sa jeunesse ". Clandestin se situe, dans l’œuvre de James Ellroy, entre Brown's Requiem et Lune sanglante.

Clandestin

Quatuor Los Angeles

Reportage and fiction from the underside of LA. James Ellroy is a unique and powerful writer with a tough and explosive voice. His obsession with the dark side of L. A. is personal and vital, triggered by the murder of his mother when he was ten. This defining event spawned an early addiction to paperback crime novels, and Ellroy's own writing is saturated in an often violent underworld of bent cops, politicians, stars, sleeze and rumour. Ellroy exploits memory, history, fact and fiction with relentless energy and panache. What emerges is an intense, mythical version of tinseltown in the second half of the twentieth century.

Crime wave

Los Angeles - Fritz Brown, ex-alcoholic private eye with a stained past, makes do with car repossessions and classical music. Then he is offered a case by Freddy 'Fat Dog' Baker, an eccentric golf caddy whose sister has made off with a much older man. This is the beginning of the nightmare: the underworld of golf caddies arson and incest played against the backdrop of an LA surreal by night and bad by day; of long hidden secrets that will drive Brown back to the bottle and to the gun: all conspire to make this one of the most hypnotic crime novels ever written.

Brown's requiem

DALLAS, NOVEMBER 22ND, 1963.

Wayne Tedrow Jr has arrived to kill a man. The fee is $6,000. He finds himself instead in the middle of the cover-up following JFK's assassination. There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of public policy via Las Vegas, Howard Hughes, Vietnam, CIA dope dealing, Cuba, sleazy showbiz, racism and the Klan.

This is the 1960s under Ellroy's blistering lens, the icons of the era mingled with cops, killers, hoods, and provocateurs. The Cold Six Thousand is historical confluence as American nightmare. Fierce, epic fiction. A masterpiece.

THE COLD SIX THOUSAND

Il est psychiatre, manipule les solitaires et les faibles. C'est la nuit qu'il exerce son pouvoir maléfique. Plus il soutire d'informations à ses malades, plus sa puissance s'accroît. Jusqu'au jour où ce "voyageur de la nuit" croise le chemin du sergent Lloyd Hopkins. Après Lune sanglante, A cause de la nuit est le second épisode de la saga de Lloyd Hopkins.

À cause de la nuit

Dallas, novembre 63. Le coeur du rêve américain explose.Un jeune flic arrive de Las Vegas avec 6 000 dollars en liquide et un sale boulot à exécuter. II ne sait pas qu'il va faire partie du complot visant à étouffer la vérité sur l'assassinat de Kennedy. II s'appelle Wayne Tedrow.Cinq années dans les coulisses de la politique vont le conduire de Dallas au Vietnam, en passant par le sud des Etats-Unis. Cinq années avec J. Edgar Hoover, Howard 'Hughes, la Mafia et le Ku Klux Klan.American Death Trip est la suite d'American Tabloid et le second volet de la trilogie Underworld USA. Le cauchemar américain nourri des coïncidences de l'Histoire, les années 60 passées au crible par Ellroy.

American Death Trip

Three of Ellroy's most compelling novels featuring Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins in one volume. Blood On The Moon: 20 random killings of women are unconnected in police files. But Det. Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins sees a pattern. As he is drawn to the murderer, the two men face a confrontation pitting icy intelligence against white-heated madness. . . Because The Night: Jacob Herzog, hero cop, has disappeared. A multiple murder committed with a pre-Civil War revolver remains unsolved. Are the two cases connected? As Det. Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins pieces the puzzle together he discovers the darker threat of John Haviland, a psychiatrist whose pleasure comes from the manipulation of the weak and lonely. Suicide Hill: Duane Rice leaves jail with good news and bad news: two adulterous bank managers are ripe for squeezing, but Vandy, who he is obsessed with making a rock star, has disappeared. An orgy of violence erupts as Duane's partner goes beserk and Duane settles scores with knife and bullet. Leading the manhunt Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins stumbles on a horrifying conspiracy of corruption and betrayal- among his own colleagues. Ellroy's three great early novels are available in one volume for the first time - the books that led up to his LA Quartet.

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