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  • Published: 30 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448108602
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

Clandestine




A scintillating novel of sex and murder in 50s LA

A scintillating novel of sex and murder in 50s LA ...
Los Angeles 1951 – Frederick Underhill, an ambitious rookie of the Los Angeles Police Department, want to become the most celebrated detective of his time. He is also sexually promiscuous. His two drives are brought together by the slaying of Maggie Cadwallader, a lonely woman whom Underhill slept with shortly before her death.

Using his inside knowledge, Underhill gets himself on the case, which is being handled by LA’s most fearsome investigator: Lieutenant Dudley Smith. But instead of the celebrity status he was hoping for, Underhill finds himself on the edge of the abyss, his whole life and future about to take a fall.

  • Published: 30 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448108602
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

About the author

James Ellroy

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed 'L.A. Quartet': The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz. His novel Blood's A Rover completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers. His last novel Widespread Panic received wide praise, with The Times calling it 'extraordinary'.

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Praise for Clandestine

One of the most original and daring writers alive

Independent on Sunday

Ellroy is a unique voice in American fiction

Jonathan Kellerman

The most distinctive crime writer of his generation

Sunday Times

One of the most important popular fiction writers in America, whose best books take their readers to the darkest places of the human condition - a Tinseltown Dostoevsky

Time Out