- 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
Ellroy is a unique voice in American fiction
Jonathan Kellerman
Ellroy's crime fiction represents a high mark in the genre
New York Newsday
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 Dostoyevsky
Time Out
The outstanding American crime writer of his generation
Peter Gutteridge, Independent
