James Ellroy - Ez a vihar

January 1942. The attack on Pearl Harbor shakes and makes America mad. Los Angeles is burning in the fever of war and racial hatred. The city is constantly raining, and a terrible storm is washing a burnt corpse from under the grass of a golf course. The detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department treat the case as a routine case, but they soon find out: they can only find the killer if they get along with two other crimes that have been unsolved for years and find out who killed their two companions in one of the most notorious neighborhoods of the city in his house.

James Ellroy's new novel continues where Perfidy left off, and well-known characters appear one after another. Sergeant Dudley Smith, who, despite his Nazi sympathies, is a captain in the military secret service, works almost exclusively on his own beard and sees the world more and more insanely. Elmer Jackson, the corrupt and cynical cop, runs girls and handles the police chief's bribery cases. Lieutenant Joan Conville follows her own path: she only seeks the opportunity to get rich in war. And forensic expert Hideo Asida slowly realizes that he won't be able to avoid the internment camp for long...

In the crazy maelstrom of wartime L.A., there is no one who is not guilty: the cops are at least as dirty as the criminals. Wild desires, greed, greed and lies drive the characters, who fight their own wars behind the scenes of the unstoppably raging world war. Another piece from the second L.A. Quartet is James Ellroy's most daring novel to date. Wild and jagged, soft and elegiac at the same time - and always unabashed.

"Grandiose. A Wagnerian vision of wartime Los Angeles...James Ellroy is one of America's greatest living crime writers."
The Sunday Times

"A great crime thriller from a true master."
Daily Mail

"A thrilling, unputdownable novel... Only Ellroy could write it like this. It required a passionate interest in the murky depths of American history."
The Washington Post