Perfidia by James Ellroy | Signed First UK Edition Book

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Ellroy, James | Perfidia | Signed First UK Limited Edition Copy

Perfidia | Ellroy, James | Signed First UK Edition Book

PERFIDIA by James Ellroy
AUTHOR AUTOGRAPHED UK HARDCOVER BOOK

Limited Numbered UK edition, first printing, mint, new/unread in a flawless dust jacket in archival acetate cover, signed by the author. Edition limited to 100 copies. September 2014 LON: Heinemann ISBN 9780434020522

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PERFIDIA by James Ellroy - SIGNED UK LIMITED FIRST EDITION BOOK

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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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