White Jazz: A Novel by James Ellroy

Not To Be Taken Too Seriously

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.

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Apparently this book is on the hit list of policemen across the nation. That

alone caused me to read it. Policemen like to read dimestore novels while

enduring the boredom of the beat. This book depicts police officers as

corrupt, willing to slice the truth in half for their own purposes, and involved

in lots of mischief themselves. The outcry by police officers for depicting

police as perverts and hypocrites shows what a fragile ego members of

that vocation have. And to think Ellroy capitalized off it. I truly think is was

a sense of revenge that Ellroy wrote this book. Apparently Ellroy had a tough life and was frequently treated shabbily by police officers when he

was arrested frequently for shoplifting. Apart from the merits of Ellroys

own shortcomings, I have to laugh at the reaction police officers across the

country have had to this book.

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