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PERFIDIA by James Ellroy - SIGNED UK LIMITED FIRST EDITION BOOK
See all titles by James Ellroy.
This book was nominated for the Folio Prize. 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-Americans - 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. He's superbly gifted,
corrosively ambitious, liquored-up and consumed by dubious ideology. He
is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith - Irish emigre, ex-IRA
killer, fledgling war profiteer. Kay Lake is a 21-year-old dilettante
looking for adventure. Hideo Ashida is a police chemist and the only
Japanese on the L.A. cop payroll. The investigation throws them together
and rips them apart. The crime becomes a political storm centre that
brilliantly illuminates these four driven souls - comrades, rivals,
lovers, history's pawns.
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 America'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.
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Perfidia 
